But the moral objections of both women’s families-and Patience’s own timidity-present obstacles to the pair’s happiness. Patience White, a genteel “spinster” who lives with her brother and his wife, spends her time painting Bible-themed folk art the much poorer Sarah Dowling, who dresses like a man while helping her pa out with chores, yearns to leave home and invites Patience to join her. It’s the story of two small-town women in 1816 Connecticut who fall in love and hatch a plan to travel together as a pioneer couple. Kimper and librettist Wende Persons, which premiered in 1998 at New York’s Lincoln Center. The much-loved 1969 historical novel Patience and Sarah, penned by lesbian writer and activist Alma Routsong under the name Isabel Miller, inspired this chamber opera by composer Paula M.
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