¡Viva la Causa!
Chelsea is thrilled to join West Edge Opera this summer for the orchestra preview of this incredible work. The music is cathartic and expansive bringing audiences right to the epicenter of the farm worker’s fight for rights during the 1960s.
Dolores Huerta is a legend in the fight for farm workers’ rights. In June of 1968, the movement lost a major ally and Dolores lost a friend when Senator Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated. The opera focuses on Dolores’ struggles, triumphs, and tragedies during some of the most iconic and charged weeks of American history. Chelsea will be singing the roles of Helen Chavez & Ethel Kennedy.
Dolores is the first commission to come out of West Edge Opera’s project Aperture. Created during the height of COVID, Aperture members watched the development of Dolores online 2020-2021. WEO now invites you to an hour-long program featuring excerpts from the opera, in person.
Nicolás Lell Benavides, composer
Marella Martin Koch, librettist
Mary Chun, Music Director