NO MAN'S LAND tells the story of a Faustian bargain made by a young farm girl (Mezzo KAYLA RODRIGUEZ PÉREZ) during the Great Depression in Oklahoma’s panhandle. The two-act opera explores themes of desperation and resilience, set to song in high relief against the most devastating man-made climate disaster in American history.

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GEORGE’s composition is characteristically innovative, deftly weaving popular and historic elements into a contemporary and immersive soundscape with genre-bending features, and highlights Cabinet’s principal violinist ADAM VON HOUSEN. The violin takes life as a character in itself, conjuring the Devil (Tenor SHANE BROWN), who incarnates as a salesman for malevolent ends.