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Gabriel's Daughter
PREMIERE7/12/2003
COMPOSERHenry Mollicone   
LIBRETTISTWilliam Luce   
Central City Opera
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DATETIMELOCATION
7/07/2003--Wheat Ridge, CO
7/16/2003--Wheat Ridge, CO
7/18/2003--Wheat Ridge, CO
7/20/2003--Wheat Ridge, CO
7/22/2003--Wheat Ridge, CO
7/24/2003--Wheat Ridge, CO
7/26/2003--Wheat Ridge, CO
8/05/2003--Wheat Ridge, CO
8/06/2003--Wheat Ridge, CO
8/08/2003--Wheat Ridge, CO
Synopsis
The opera tells the story of a remarkable woman who was an ex-slave, and who spent most of her life in bondage in frontier Kentucky. During these years she had lost contact with her husband and children when they were sold to different owners. She obtained her freedom after the death of her owner in 1857 and traveled west in search of her missing family.

Clara arrived in Central City, CO, around 1860, already some 60 years old. She opened her own laundry business and with hard work and successful investments, Clara became wealthy, owning scores of properties and mining claims throughout Central City, Georgetown and Denver. She used her money to help dozens of beleaguered freedmen come to Colorado to start new lives. Surviving fires, flood and frauds, Clara continued her good works throughout the 1870's, however, she searched in vain for her long-lost family.

In her later years, her health failing and impoverished from a lifetime of unflagging generosity, Clara moved to Denver and had to depend upon her many friends and admirers to provide for her. In a truly operatic denouement, the faith that sustained her through her entire life was finally, and gloriously, rewarded by a miraculous reunion with her daughter Eliza Jane.
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This work ranks as the #328 most produced North American title since 2000.
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