The rural community of northern New York State plays a major role in the third of our “Spotlight” series of stories detailing the formation of “Promised Land: an Adirondack Folk Opera.” Community leaders, historians, grandparents, teachers and high school students have all contributed to the development of an opera that relates the story of an 1840s settlement in North Elba, New York, named Timbuctoo. Even though many envision a composer as writing alone, Glenn McClure says this project is not about him. It is grounded in ideas from the local region where the history happened.
How are we going to produce a major opera in the Adirondacks?
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