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When the lights come up on Opera Theater of St. Louis’s Emmeline, the stage is daringly bare. There is no set, simply a cluster of silhouettes surrounding a stark, wooden gravestone. The opera begins ...

In the story, Emmeline, 13, is sent to work in the fabric mills in Lowell, Mass. There, she is seduced by the son-in-law of the mill owner, and, when she becomes pregnant, is sent away to her aunt to ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Tobias Picker’s “Emmeline” is, arguably, the greatest American opera of the 20th century. The new production of “Emmeline” that ...

“Wow” factors abound in “Emmeline,” which triggered thunderous ovations opening night, and immediately raised the profile of this inexplicably neglected American classic. Opera Theatre of St. Louis ...

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PBS has come full circle with its “Great Performances” telecast of the Tobias Picker opera, “Emmeline,” to be seen locally on WTTW-Ch. 11 at 10 p.m. Wednesday. The true story of Emmeline Mosher, a ...

Tulsa Opera’s world premiere of a new production of “Emmeline,” an opera by the company’s artistic director Tobias Picker scheduled to be performed Feb. 25 and 27, has been postponed. Picker and Ken ...

I saw Tobias Picker's powerful first opera, "Emmeline," at its Santa Fe Opera premiere in 1996, and again at the New York City Opera in 1998. Ever since, it has been a measure by which I assess the ...

Joyce El-Khoury sings as if she means every syllable, and John Irvin is appealingly fresh in Emmeline . Apart from a New York City Opera reprise in 1998, though, and a reduced-orchestra version ...

Every year around this time, national and international media attention centers around one of the Gateway City’s most important cultural assets, the Opera Theatre of St. Louis. A typically large ...