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5 unusual facts about O Pioneers!


Barbara Harbach

In October 2009, Harbach's opera O Pioneers!, based upon the Willa Cather novel of the same name, received its world premiere at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.

Glenn Jordan

His directing credits include small-screen adaptions of The Picture of Dorian Gray, Les Misérables, Hogan's Goat, Eccentricities of a Nightingale, A Streetcar Named Desire, O Pioneers!, and A Christmas Memory.

Mel Atkey

O Pioneers! (2001), musical with music and lyrics by Atkey and a book by Robert Sickinger

Morus alba

The "White Mulberry Tree" is title of a crucial chapter in Willa Cather's 1913 novel, O Pioneers!, in which two forbidden lovers are killed, a reference to the story of Pyramus and Thisbe.

University of Nebraska Press

The press is publisher of the scholarly editions of the works of Willa Cather, including the classics My Antonia and O Pioneers!.



see also

Marilee Lindemann

Willa Cather, O Pioneers! with introduction, notes, and chronology (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999).