Riders of the Purple Sage: The Making of a Western Opera

Follow a classically trained composer as he adapts a dime novel masterpiece into a grand opera. In 1912, Zane Grey's Riders of the Purple Sage flew off bookshelves around the world and today is considered iconic. A century later, Craig Bohmler and a team of musicians, singers, and painters translate cowboy culture and the beauty of the west into the realm of Puccini and Verdi.

• Release date
• February 5, 2020
• Runtime
• 83 min
• Genres
• Documentary
• Director
• Kristin Atwell Ford