‘En Mis Palabras’ Features Two Languages, Cultures: The Bilingual Performance Tells the Story of a Mexican Immigrant Family From: redorbit.com
Tagged: ColoradoPosted on: July 9th, 2008
A free opera performance at Colorado College this evening tells the story of a Mexican immigrant family and a teenage girl’s struggle to come to terms with her father’s culture.
The opera features elements of Mexican and Hispanic-American cultures — Spanish and English woven together, prayer to the Virgin Mary, and spirits of the dead that communicate with the living. But the themes in “En Mis Palabras,” or “In My Own Words,” are universal, said Deborah Morrow, director of education programs for Central City Opera, which commissioned the piece. “*
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