Rappahannock County

A new music theater piece about life during the Civil War

Ricky Ian Gordon, composer
Mark Campbell, librettist
Kevin Newbury, director
Rob Fisher, music director

Tuesday, April 12, 8:00 PM, no discounts on Opening Night
Saturday, April 16, 8:00 PM
Sunday, April 17, 2:30 PM
Harrison Opera House, Norfolk
Tickets $75, $60, $45, $25


This moving new music theater work was co-commissioned by the Virginia Arts Festival to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War. Its creators, renowned composer Ricky Ian Gordon (creator of the Obie Award-winning Orpheus & Euridice and the acclaimed opera The Grapes of Wrath) and Broadway librettist Mark Campbell were inspired by real diaries, letters, and personal accounts from the period. Enter the lives of Virginians at war-black and white, rich and poor, soldiers, nurses, widows, survivors-through Gordon and Campbell's haunting songs on a stage transformed by projections of Civil War photography, illustrations, and documents. Be among the first to experience this unforgettable new production!
Co-commissioned by the Virginia Arts Festival,Virginia Opera, the Modlin Center for the Arts at the University of Richmond, and Texas Performing Arts at the University of Texas at Austin.