Nu Nah-Hup: Sacajawea’s Story
Nu Nah-Hup: Sacajawea’s Story
Libretto by Rose Ann Abrahamson
Music by Hovia Edwards and Justin Ralls
A new opera based on oral histories of Sacajawea’s Agai-Dika familial descendants as well as the journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Rose Ann Abrahamson is the great-great-grandniece of Sacajawea through Sacajawea’s brother, Cameahwait.
Sung in Aqai-Dika/Lemhi-Shoshone, Québécois French, English, and also including Native American Sign Language (with English subtitles).
Commissioned and Produced by Opera Theater Oregon and presented at the Hampton Opera Center’s Hinckley Theater, May 13-14, 2023, with Production support from the National Endowment for the Arts and Oregon Community Foundation’s Creative Heights Award.
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CAST
(in order of appearance)
SACAJAWEA Marion Newman
TOUSSAINT CHARBONNEAU Richard Zeller
CAPTAIN WILLIAM CLARK Dan Gibbs