Rappahannock County, Opera (A New Music Theatre Piece about Life During the Civil War) September 13, 2011

This moving new song cycle, which premiered in April 2011 at the Virginia Arts Festival, was co-commissioned by the Modlin Center to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War. Its creators, renowned composer Ricky Ian Gordon (creator of the acclaimed opera The Grapes of Wrath) and Broadway librettist Mark Campbell, were inspired by real diaries, letters, and personal accounts from the period. Enter the lives of Virginians at war—black and white, rich and poor—with evocative songs transformed by projections of Civil War photography, illustrations, and documents.

Official Website: http://modlin.richmond.edu/events/modlinarts-presents/rappahannock-county.html