Rudolfo Anaya's famed novel "Bless Me, Ultima," one of the most recognizable works of Mexican-American Literature and a book some scholars believed sparked the Chicano literary movement in the late 1960s, is being made into an opera.
National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque announced this week it's collaborating with Opera Southwest to commission the work based on Anaya's novel set in 1940s New Mexico about a boy and a traditional healer called a curandera.
The opera will be written by California-based composer Hector Armienta and is slated to be produced in 2018, center executive director . . .
