NEWS!!
Opera Montana’s Bozeman production of A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT
was a SOLD OUT success!!
Catch it in Missoula this weekend October 3rd and 4th with the Missoula Symphony!
“...elevated Broadway, with sophisticated scoring whether in flowing melodies or catchy folk tunes.
“River,” hits all the beats of textbook music theater....nostalgic, in style and substance, it goes down easily...[the orchestra] illustrates the natural world through phrases that cascade and gust with a flourish.”
“...part opera, part musical theater about family, loss, guilt, masculinity and, of course, fly-fishing.
Composer Zach Redler sets the tone of the relationship between the brothers and their personae in an early duet. The music plods while Norman, a careful fisherman, sings, then soars as Paul takes the water. “Beautiful,” Norman says, observing his brother’s prowess.”
“[River] embodies the book’s characters, themes and powerful sense of place with a sophistication and eloquence that take it beyond the regional into the universal.
...tuneful, rhythmic arias often built on strophic, deftly rhymed text as well as deep affinity with Maclean’s poetic diction.
The most striking musical moments are the ensembles....the overlapping voices evoke the world of water, a place of grace and redemption...
...hypnotic, time-stopping...
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