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Friends, family remember prominent transgender community member
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The Blacksmith: The Making of a Cowboy Opera
Independently produced content from Colorado filmmakers.
The Blacksmith: The Making of a Cowboy Opera
Season 2022 Episode 28 | 26m 41s | CC
Mancos, CO served as the perfect backdrop for Opera Lafayette’s adaptation of Philidor’s The Blacksmith, presented in partnership with Mancos Creative District. This modern premiere is adapted and translated from an 18th-century French opéra comique composed by François-André Danican Philidor in 1761, to the late 19th-century American West, to pandemic-era Colorado.
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