By Adam Nagourney Reporting from Tijuana, Mexico, and San Diego “Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote,” performed on both sides of the border, offers an allegory about migrants, immigration agents and President Trump" The new children’s opera “Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote” is told with singers dressed up as hopping bunnies, coyotes, snakes and butterflies. In the course of 90minutes, it chronicles a journey through deserts, a river, an underground tunnel and a wall: a border wall, lo

By George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune The bilingual chamber-opera for children and adults by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Anthony Davis and librettist Allan Havis is a tour de force. Tijuana and the world’s largest international border crossing are only 12 miles away from Chula Vista’s Southwestern College Performing Arts Center, which on Saturday and Sunday hosted the world premiere performances of Pulitzer Prize-winner Anthony Davis’ often remarkable new Spanish-Engl

by George Varga / San Diego Union-Tribune Presented by Bodhi Tree Concerts and based on a children's book by Mexican-American author Duncan Tonatiuh, the bilingual 'Pancho Rabbit and The Coyote' will have its world premiere in San Diego and Tijuana. Pulitzer Prize-winning opera composer and UC San Diego professor Anthony Davis didn’t have to look beyond his backyard — figuratively and (almost) literally — for inspiration for his latest musical opus, “Pancho Rabbit and The Coy

by Erika Johnson / UCSD Today Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Anthony Davis and nationally acclaimed playwright and librettist Allan Havis, both professors at the University of California San Diego, will debut their new bilingual chamber opera, “Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote,” in January 2026. An allegorical work, the opera explores the hopes and perils of migrants at the U.S.–Mexico border. Commissioned by Bodhi Tree Concerts, the binational world-premiere will begin at the S

by Editor Bodhi Tree Concerts has announced the most ambitious undertaking in its 13-year history – the commission of a bilingual chamber...

By David Salazar - June 25, 2024 Bodhi Tree Concerts has commissioned a new opera from Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Anthony Davis. The...

By GEORGE VARGA | george.varga@sduniontribune.com | The San Diego Union-Tribune - PUBLISHED: June 24, 2024 at 4:31 p.m. | UPDATED: June...