Twofer: Rufus Wainwright ‘Dream Requiem,’ L.A. Opera ‘Ainadamar’

Two characters sing onstage as ghostly figures seem to hover above.

Osvaldo Golijov’s beauteously strange “Ainadamar” has reached Los Angeles. The opera, one of this century’s most gratifying, portrays the 1936 political execution of the poet Federico Garcia Lorca during the Spanish Civil War through the […]