These Valleys and Mountains

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Dave Kline’s article in Reading Eagle

A new opera by Chris Heslop, with libretto by Vicki Haller Graff, and direction by Joel Richard Gori. Performed at the Miller Center for the Arts at RACC on June 17, 2022.

Mountain Mary left a legacy of loving spirituality and profound healing. Matthias Schaumbacher left the opposite: a legend of greed and violence. How have the seeds planted in the stories of these two people, who lived such different lives, grown in this place we call home?