Margaret Garner

The tragic true story of the African-American woman who inspired Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "Beloved" is adapted in this moving original opera. Escaping from a Kentucky plantation in 1856, Garner chooses to kill her children rather than see them returned to slavery. This production by the Michigan Opera Theatre, the Cincinnati Opera, and the Opera Company of Philadelphia stars Denyce Graves. 52 min. Standard; Soundtrack: French; Subtitles: English. In French with English subtitles.