Organization

Conductor

Eiki Isomura

Stage director

Richard Gammon

Set designer

Yuki Izumihara

Singer

Soprano

Janet Todd

Setsuko

Mezzo-soprano

Nina Yoshida Nelsen

Hiroko Kobayashi

Audrey Babcock

Eva Crowley

Baritone

Ben Lowe

Jim Crowley

Paul An

Makoto Kobayashi

Opera Santa Barbara

Orchestra

Santa Barbara Symphony

English

An American Dream

Santa Barbara

United States

Lobero Theatre

An American Dream Jack Perla

Public

Approved

2013, Music by Jack Perla; Libretto by Jessica Murphy Moo
Commissioned by Seattle Opera by arrangement with the publisher: Music Without Walls
Sole Agent: Bill Holab Music

Genre: WWII Drama set in the Pacific Northwest
Running time: 70 minutes
Language: English with surtitles
Venue: Lobero Theatre

Treasured possessions become symbols of their lost homes for two women during World War II: a Japanese American facing incarceration and a German Jewish immigrant preoccupied by those she left behind, in Jack Perla and Jessica Murphy Moo’s 2013 drama.

An American Dream by Perla, From (2023/2023), Directed by Richard Gammon,, Conductor Eiki Isomura, Lobero Theatre, Santa Barbara, United States

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