The Juniper Tree (opera)

It was premiered on December 11, 1985, at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The first UK performance was premiered by Helen Astrid as part of the Richmond Festival in March 2017 at The Hammond Theatre. For its 25th anniversary of creation, the presented the Canadian premiere of the opera in September, 2010, at the Salle Jean-Paul Tardif in Quebec, Canada. ==Roles==

The Grimm fairy tale tells of a wicked stepmother who murders her stepson, fearing that he reminds her husband of his late wife and serves him up in a stew to his hungry, unsuspecting father. The boy's sister buries her brother's bones under a juniper tree where their mother is buried, and the child's spirit returns as a singing bird who wreaks vengeance on the evil stepmother (dropping a millstone on her) before being restored to life in the bosom of his family. ==References==