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Article: Persons and Kimper: Patience and Sarah.(Lincoln Center, New York, New York)
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- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- May 12, 1998
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In what may be an operatic first, a lesbian love story takes center stage
Think Little House on the Prairie. Add passionate lesbian love. That's one way to describe Isabel Miller's classic 1972 novel Patience & Sarah, a tale of two 19th-century American women who defy the conventions of their time, writing their own rules and settling on a farm. Romantic, even inspirational--but an opera? Indeed. Seventeen years in the making, Patience & Sarah--the first opera in memory that centers on a lesbian love story--is scheduled to make its world premiere in New York beginning July 8 as part of Lincoln Center Festival 98.
The idea for the opera originated in ...