Riders of the Purple Sage The Making of a Western Opera (2020)

Follow a classically trained composer as he adapts a dime novel masterpiece into a grand opera In 1912 Zane Greys Riders of the Purple Sage flew off bookshelves around the world and today is considered iconic A century later Craig Bohmler and a team of musicians singers and painters translate cowboy culture and the beauty of the west into the realm of Puccini and Verdi