Ulises Aquino was already one of Cuba's best-known baritones when he founded his own company, Opera de la Calle, or Opera of the Street, in 2006. By combining Cuban rhythms and dance with his formal ...

NEW YORK (JTA) — “Hatuey: Memory of Fire” flashes alternately among three unlikely settings and languages. The chamber opera is set in a nightclub in Havana in 1931, a Cuban battlefield where ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. In Hatuey: Memory of Fire, the young poet Oscar (as Asher was known in Cuba) is ...

Writer Asher Penn understood oppression, escaping to Cuba as anti-Jewish pogroms despoiled his native Ukraine. So perhaps it shouldn't be surprising that he would find inspiration there in legendary ...

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HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban performers ranging from Broadway-style dancers to classical opera singers are packing them in at El Cabildo, a recently opened entertainment center that is pushing the limits ...

When a prominent Cuban singer opened a restaurant and cabaret, he believed he was following President Raul Castro's cry for more small business.... Opera Unfolds When A Cuban Cabaret Is Shut Down ...

private business in Havana and perhaps a harbinger of things to come under the initiatives of President Raul Castro. El Cabildo, which has an outdoor theater, bar and 150-seat restaurant, is a ...

Ulises Aquino was already one of Cuba's best-known baritones when he founded his own company, Opera de la Calle, or Opera of the Street, in 2006. By combining Cuban rhythms and dance with his formal ...