Based on the novel by Hemingway, this opera by Paola Prestini, Royce Vavrek and Karmina Šilec presents a dual track of storytelling by combining Hemingway text with portraits of quotidian life. The work includes longtime collaborators of Prestini’s including Jeffrey Zeigler as the featured cellist. The cast includes a choir, and the seminal characters: Santiago, Manolin, and wife, recast as La Virgen del Cobre, a goddess in Santería.