BARNES, A Place To Call Home by EDWARD BARNES: Composer/Lyricist published on 2023-05-19T12:06:17Z Words & Music by EDWARD BARNES Based on interviews, conducted by the composer, with teenage refugees in Los Angeles SYNOPSIS: The journeys of 4 different teenage refugees/immigrants, their escape, arrival and assimilation in the U.S.. Based on interviews conducted by the composer-librettist with teenage refugees from El Salvador, Iran, Cambodia and Angola,the opera is propelled forward by the choices and decisions each teenager has to make re: cultural identity, conformity, new language, new systems, new friends, and their struggles to rebuild lives in a complex new world. Genre Classical
