One Of Chicago’s Veteran Music Critics Writes An Opera About His Holocaust-Survivor Mother

In 2019, Howard Reich, longtime jazz critic of the Chicago Tribune, published The Art of Inventing Hope, based on conversations with Elie Wiesel and Reich’s mother’s experiences in WWII Poland. He has now adapted that book into an opera libretto, The Dialogue of Memories, with music by Tom Cipullo. – WTTW (Chicago)

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