![]() ![]() The story of Japanese-Americans sent to camps in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor enticed 21-year old Katie Cunningham to attend the opera for the first time. “There’s something happening on a broader scale,” she said. ![]() ![]() Murphy Moo said she has heard of multiple operas taking shape around the country that are based on real-life stories. Using regional history and voices for inspiration seems to be gaining ground outside of Seattle as well. Both characters are based on Seattle women. “An American Dream” intertwines the World War II-era stories of a Japanese-American girl on Bainbridge Island who is incarcerated with her family, and a Jewish refugee arriving from Europe. “The idea was, what if we created an opera that had everything to do with the here and now in a way that sometimes some of the classic operas don’t do,” she said. ![]()
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