Howard Hanson was the longtime director of the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, and this excellent ensemble honors him with a rare performance of this vivid, grand opera, based on a Hawthorne story. The work had a successful Metropolitan Opera premiere in 1934, but then vanished into obscurity. This concert performance, the only full opera slated for this year's Spring for Music festival, is conducted by Michael Christie. The cast includes the baritone Richard Zeller and the soprano Sara Jakubiak.