The Dreamers (opera)
The Dreamers is a chamber opera in four scenes with music by David Conte and libretto by Philip Littell.
Commissioned and premiered by Sonoma City Opera in September 1996, the opera centers around a town of "dreamers" who, though separated by sexual, racial, and cultural differences, are brought together through their dreams. From a gay man's dream of finding acceptance to an African-American's dream of earning enough money (as a gambler) to buy his wife out of slavery to an American soldier's dream of marrying "pretty Fanny" and obtaining "property," The Dreamers illustrates a fundamental right of America - to dream and pursue said dreams.
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“And of the swan in death these dreamers tell
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pierced by the freezing bullet
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—Patricia K. Page (b. 1916)