Rudolfo Anaya’s “Bless Me, Ultima” to be made into an opera

*I think this is great news. The AP story calls it calls it “one of the most recognizable works of Mexican-American Literature and a book some scholars believed sparked the Chicano literary movement in the late 1960s.” VL

By Russell Contreras, Associated Press

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Rudolfo Anaya’s famed novel “Bless Me, Ultima,” one of the most recognizable works of Mexican-American Literature and a book some scholars believed sparked the Chicano literary movement in the late 1960s, is being made into an opera.

National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque announced this week it’s collaborating with Opera Southwest to commission the work based on Anaya’s novel set in 1940s New Mexico about a boy and a traditional healer called a curandera.

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The opera will be written by California-based composer Hector Armienta and is slated to be produced in 2018 . . . READ MORE

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