It's a story that could have been taken from a breaking news report: A soldier, gravely wounded in a brutal battle, flees the fighting to try and make his way home. Only this story is set during the ...

Opera Philadelphia is gearing up for the East Coast premiere of an epic war drama. Cold Mountain is based on the award-winning novel by the same name. It then became an Oscar-nominated film and has ...

When Higdon writes music — whether it's her operatic adaptation of Cold Mountain, chamber works or any of her 15 concertos — she insists that it communicates, that it's capable of being understood and ...