FULL O Pioneers! (Tyler Goodrich White) Lincoln NE 2023 Sarah Wibben, Sebastian Sorensen, Krista Lawrence Sorensen
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: O Pioneers!
- Composer: Tyler Goodrich White
- Libretto: based on Willa Cather’s 1913 novel Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Lied Center for Performing Arts, Lincoln, Nebraska
- Recorded: November 12, 2023
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Sarah Wibben, Sebastian Sorensen, Krista Lawrence Sorensen, Trey Meyer, Joshua Pitt, Gavin Berry, Bryson Cole, Samuel Kennedy
- Conductor: Tyler Goodrich White
- Orchestra: UNL Symphony Orchestra
- Chorus: UNL Chamber Singers
- Choreographer: Susan Levine Ourada
- Stage Director: William Shomos
- Costume Designer: Jamie Bullins
- Lighting Designer: Michelle Harvey
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Glenn Korff School of Music
- Date Published: 2024
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs, gensubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
O Pioneers! is a 1913 novel by American author Willa Cather, written while she was living in New York. It was her second published novel. The title is a reference to a poem by Walt Whitman entitled “Pioneers! O Pioneers!” from Leaves of Grass (1855).
Plot introduction
“There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating …”
O Pioneers! tells the story of the Bergsons, a family of Swedish-American immigrants in the farm country near the fictional town of Hanover, Nebraska, at the turn of the 20th century. The main character, Alexandra Bergson, inherits the family farmland when her father dies, and she devotes her life to making the farm a viable enterprise at a time when many other immigrant families are giving up and leaving the prairie. The novel is also concerned with two romantic relationships, one between Alexandra and family friend Carl Linstrum and the other between Alexandra’s brother Emil and the married Marie Shabata.
Quoted from Wikipedia