Pa Zegner sings about how “Uncle Sam will give us all” one of these places in the prologue to Missy Mazzoli’s opera Proving Up. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this type of location on which the Moss family sings about “the blessings of harvest.” Carlisle Floyd’s opera Of Mice and Men is set at one of these places in the Salinas Valley.
ANSWER: farms [accept ranches]
[10h] The folk song “Zion’s Walls” provides the melody for “The Promise of Living,” the final quintet sung by the Moss family in this composer’s only mature opera, The Tender Land.
ANSWER: Aaron Copland
[10m] A former slave plantation provides the setting for this Scott Joplin opera, in which Remus saves the title freedwoman from being thrown into a wasps’ nest by a group of conjurers.
ANSWER: Treemonisha
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