With David Henry Hwang as librettist, soprano Dawn Upshaw in a starring role, and Spanish poet Federico GarcÃa Lorca as its subject, Osvaldo Golijov's opera could have been a high-minded disaster, said John von Rhein in the Chicago Tribune. Instead, it's a 'œpoignant, powerful, and deeply poetic meditation' enlivened by the gritty rhythms of salsa and the desperate wails of flamenco.
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