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'Purple Sage' world premiere tops Arizona Opera's 2016-17 season

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'Purple Sage' world premiere tops Arizona Opera's 2016-17 season

The Republic

'Purple Sage' world premiere tops Arizona Opera's 2016-17 season. A mark-your-calendar alert for opera buffs and fans of classic Westerns alike: Arizona Opera’s first world premiere, an adaptation of the Zane Grey novel “Riders of the Purple Sage,” tops the list of productions for the company’s just-announced 2016-17 season.

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See the making of an Arizona opera

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See the making of an Arizona opera

East Valley Tribune

See the making of an American opera. It’s not often art lovers get to see a work in progress let alone contribute to it, but Arizona Opera gives fans the opportunity to do just that this weekend when they present the first reading of Riders of the Purple Sage — an original opera based on Zane Grey’s western novel, set on the Arizona-Utah border.