Denyce Graves as Margaret Garner rehearsal - MOT

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Denyce Graves, Gregg Baker, Mary Elizabeth Williams, and the Michigan Opera Theatre Chorus and Orchestra rehearse "A Little More Time," from the opera "Margaret Garner," at the Detroit Opera House, October 2008. Conducted by Stefan Lano, directed by Kenny Leon.

Composer: Richard Danielpour
Librettist: Toni Morrison
Premiered: Detroit 2005 (this video October 2008)

The opera is based on the true story of a slave family's quest for freedom in pre-Civil War America. Margaret Garner briefly escaped with her children from a Kentucky farm in 1856. Upon capture she made the horrific decision to kill her children rather than see them returned to slavery.

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