Performances[edit]
Elmer Gantry premiered in 2007 at the Nashville Opera, with a subsequent performance at Montclair State University in 2008. The Florentine Opera Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, produced the opera in March 2010, which was recorded and released on CD by Naxos Records. A third production was completed at the University of Minnesota in November 2010.[2] The opera was performed in March 2014 at the Tulsa Opera.
The Naxos recording of the Florentine Opera Company's March 2010 production won two 2011 Grammy Awards.[3]
Recordings[edit]
The Florentine Opera's March 2010 recording of Elmer Gantry has been released on the Naxos label.[6] At the 54th Annual Grammy Awards on February 12, 2012, the recording was awarded Grammys for Best Engineered Album, Classical (awarded to Byeong-Joon Hwang & John Newton, engineers; Jesse Lewis, mastering engineer), and Best Contemporary Classical Composition (awarded to Robert Aldridge and Herschel Garfein).