A Wedding (opera)

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A Wedding is a comic opera composed by William Bolcom to a libretto by Robert Altman and Arnold Weinstein. It was based on Altman's 1979 film A Wedding.

It was first performed on December 11, 2004 by the Lyric Opera of Chicago, which had commissioned the work. The premiere had stage direction by Altman and was conducted by Dennis Russell Davies. The 48 film characters were trimmed down to 19 on stage.

  • Nettie Sloan: The matriach. She comes from old money, and dies in the second scene.
  • Her daughter, who is a factory owner and employs illegal immigrants
  • A doctor turned art dealer, dealing in Pollock, De Kooning, and Kline
  • Patricia Risley, a flaky interpretive dancer who is in love with the family’s butler
  • Mark Doss, the Caribbean butler
  • An emotionally stunted morphine addict (female)

  • The groom, a military-academy graduate whose "body is finer than his mind"
  • The bride, a naïve ingénue from Louisville, Kentucky
  • The bride's father, a reformed fornicator turned millionaire
  • The bride's mother, a naïve belle who yearns for adventure
  • The groom's father
  • The groom's paternal uncle from the old country —together with
  • A Communistic aunt
  • A hired wedding guest (male)
  • An obsessive-compulsive wedding planner (female)
  • The best man, an alcoholic marine

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