Opera Steamboat: Proving Up

"Part of Opera Steamboat’s 2023 Summer Festival; Be careful what you wish for… Mazzoli and Vaverk’s frontier ghost story is a cautionary tale peppered with classic Americana melodies and lots of harmonicas. Opera Steamboat's Summer Company of internationally acclaimed professionals and young artists will thrill opera aficionados and newbies alike. This work is adapted from the short story by Karen Russell. The Zegner’s have come to Nebraska in search of their American Dream. The ‘new’ homestead act of 1862 says they can claim the land they have settled on as their own, as long as it has a glass window in it…"