Composer Lance Hulme felt the inspiration for his newest opera close to home. “December Night” is based on a chapter of Nebraska native author Willa Cather’s “Death Comes for the Archbishop,” written ...

In 1931 the great American novelist Willa Cather wrote a story called “Two Friends.” Set in a small Kansas town during the 1890s, the story begins with a sense of comfortable stability. The town’s two ...

Willa Cather circa 1912 (Aime Dupont Studio/Wikimedia Commons). Born near Winchester, Va., in 1873, Cather moved to Nebraska with her family (she was one of seven children) in 1883, eventually ...