Riders of the Purple Sage: The Making of a Western Opera

Follow a classically trained composer as he adapts a dime novel masterpiece into a grand opera. In 1912, Zane Grey's 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.

Director

Kristin Atwell Ford

Created by

Billie Jo Herberger,Judd Herberger,J. Scott Hooker