Toni Morrison at work on opera
From Associated Press
DETROIT —
Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison is collaborating on an opera based on the life of an escaped slave who tried to kill her family to avoid returning to captivity.
Michigan Opera Theatre and opera companies in Philadelphia and Cincinnati commissioned the work by Morrison and American composer Richard Danielpour. It’s scheduled to premiere at the Detroit Opera House in May 2005.
“Margaret Garner” is based on Garner’s flight from Kentucky to the free state of Ohio in 1856.
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