Ashland News covers the world premiere of Anima Mundi's filmed opera "Dreams Have No Borders."
The weekend started with a panel discussion by community leaders at El Tapatio Restaurant, moved to two showings of Dreams Have No Borders at the Varsity Theater, and ended with a reception at Art & Soul Ashland, where paintings by Forward Youth teens were displayed.
Describing the opera in her article, Lucie Scheuer wrote:
Written by Rogue Valley composer Ethan Gans-Morse and librettist Tiziana Della-Rovere, the opera is a masterwork. It is a bright mosaic of ancestral Aztec and the Virgin of Guadalupe imagery, soul-stirring string and chamber music that vibrates with sad, but harmonic vocal sincerity and poetry brimming with pleas, endearment and hope. It reaches into your solar plexus and doesn’t let go.
