Cold Mountain may refer to:
Cold Mountain is a 2003 British-American-Romanian-Italian epic war drama film written and directed by Anthony Minghella. The film is based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Charles Frazier. It stars Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, and Renée Zellweger in leading roles as well as Natalie Portman, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Melora Walters, Jena Malone, Donald Sutherland, Brendan Gleeson, Ray Winstone, Jack White, Kathy Baker, Cillian Murphy and Giovanni Ribisi in supporting roles.
The film tells the story of a wounded deserter from the Confederate army close to the end of the American Civil War, who is on his way to return to the love of his life.
Cold Mountain opened to positive reviews from critics and won several major awards. Renée Zellweger won the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award for her role in the film. It was also a success at the box office and became a sleeper hit grossing more than double its budget worldwide.
When North Carolina secedes from the Union on May 20, 1861, the young men of a rural, provincial, North Carolina backwater known only as Cold Mountain hurry to enlist in the Confederate military. Among them is W.P. Inman (Jude Law), a carpenter who has fallen in love with Ada (Nicole Kidman), a minister´s daughter, and finds their whirlwind courtship interrupted by the American Civil War.
Cold Mountain is the first opera written by Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer Jennifer Higdon and set to an English libretto by Gene Scheer based on Charles Frazier's award-winning novel of the same name, published in 1997, which won the 1997 National Book Award and was made into a film of the same title in 2003.
The opera was given its world premiere at the Santa Fe Opera on August 1, 2015, conducted by Miguel Harth-Bedoya and directed by Leonard Foglia with set design by Robert Brill, lighting design by Brian Nason, costumes by David C. Woolard and projection design by Elaine J. McCarthy. It was co-commissioned by and is a co-production with both Opera Philadelphia and the Minnesota Opera.
The Philadelphia company presented the work in February 2016 as part of its "American Repertoire Program", a ten-year commitment to produce a contemporary American work each season. The Minnesota production will be staged in 2018, but specific dates have not been announced. For The Santa Fe Opera, it is the company's 46th American and fourth world premiere in its 59 seasons.
I see people singing their songs,
Relying on the words
Their mouths won't work without their minds.
Singing with mouths and minds at odds,
The mind creates no tangles,
Our mind creates no walls or chains.
Just examine your own self,
Don't look stand-ins for your work.
Become the master of your mouth.