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THE OPERA

Bel Canto

Music by

Jimmy López

Libretto by

Nilo Cruz

Based on the novel by

Ann Patchett

Commissioned by Lyric Opera of Chicago

General Director

Anthony Freud

Music Director

Sir Andrew Davis

Creative Consultant

Renée Fleming

World–premiere performances

Dec. 7, 2015—Jan. 17, 2016

Opera in two acts in

Spanish, English, Japanese, Russian,

German, French, Latin, and Quechua

TIME and PLACE

1996, A stately two–story mansion in Lima, Perú.