from Act I, Scene 2 of the English opera
The Ballad of Baby Doe by Douglas Moore
Libretto: John Latouche
Role: Horace Tabor, mayor of Leadville and owner of the Matchless Mine, married to Augusta
Voice Part: baritone Fach: lyric baritone
Setting: outside of the Clarendon Hotel, Leadville, Colorado, 1880
Synopsis: Tabor has just overheard Baby Doe singing. He introduces himself and tells her that her beautiful singing made him think of his own youth and what he left behind when he came out to Colorado from New Hampshire. He implies tenderly that he could find some of these lost things again in her.