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On July 9, 2022, Des Moines Metro Opera will add a new American work to the operatic canon with its world premiere of A Thousand Acres with music by Kristin Kuster and libretto by Mark Campbell. The evening-length work is based on Jane Smiley s 1991 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name and will be a centerpiece of DMMO s 50th Anniversary Season in 2022. Set on an Iowa farm in the late 1970s, this powerful reimagining of Shakespeare s King Lear was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Ambassador Book Award for Fiction. As this seminal novel approaches its 30th anniversary later this year, the occasion is right to bring the words of a major American novelist to life on the opera stage, said Michael Egel, General and Artistic Director. The choice of A Thousand Acres for an opera company in Iowa is the perfect melding of subject and locale and an ideal one for us in celebration of our 50th Anniversary. The novel is perfectly placed in history to receive an o
The film of Hannah’s much-loved novel
The Nightingale (published in 43 languages), starring Dakota Fanning and Elle Fanning, is slated for December 2021, and Netflix is releasing a 10-part series based on
Firefly Lane in early February 2021.
The Great Alone has also been optioned for the screen.
Kristin’s work touches millions of people.
Firefly Lane became a runaway bestseller in 2009, a touchstone novel that brought women together, and
The Nightingale, in 2015, was voted a best book of the year by Amazon, Buzzfeed, iTunes,
Library Journal,
Wall Street Journal and
The Week. Additionally, the novel won the coveted Goodreads and People’s Choice Awards. The audiobook of