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Margaret Garner
PREMIERE5/7/2005
COMPOSERRichard Danielpour   
LIBRETTISTToni Morrison   
Detroit Opera
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5/07/2005--Detroit, MI
5/11/2005--Detroit, MI
5/14/2005--Detroit, MI
5/20/2005--Detroit, MI
5/22/2005--Detroit, MI
Synopsis
When Edward Gaines acquires his deceased brother's Kentucky estate, he pledges to let all the slave families on Maplewood Plantation stay together. However, when he takes a special interest in one of the slaves, Margaret Garner, it is not long before her husband Robert is sent away alone to another plantation. One night, Robert sneaks back to Maplewood and attempts to escape with Margaret and their children to the 'Free State' of Ohio. They are caught and Margaret murders her children in a crime passionel to spare them the indignity of a life of slavery. Margaret is condemned to death and although she is granted clemency at the last minute, she chooses the freedom of the gallows over life as a slave.
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This work ranks as the #69 most produced North American title since 2000.

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