Civil War tragedy 'Cold Mountain' inspires opera
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioGWEN IFILL: Now to the making of a new opera from a story set amid the horror of the Civil War. The second performance is tonight in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Jeffrey Brown was there for the premiere this weekend. In the new opera “Cold Mountain,” we first meet W.P. Inman at a Confederate military hospital in Virginia, as he and other soldiers mourn the loss of yet another …