It is based on a long-forgotten miners' strike at the town of Rockland in Upper Peninsula of Michigan's Ontonagon County.
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Rockland the Opera, commissioned by the Pine Mountain Music Festival (PMMF), is an historically-based tragic opera in 14 scenes composed and written by Jukka Linkola of Nivala, Finland, first performed in 2011.
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