Nicolas Benavides' 'Tres Minutos' (available on-demand through October 15, 2022)
To honor Hispanic Heritage Month, Music of Remembrance is pleased to offer video-on-demand streaming of Tres minutos, an absorbing one-act opera by the young Hispanic composer Nicolas Benavides and librettist Marella Martin Koch.
This important work tells the story of Nila and her brother Diego. Allowed a brief supervised reunion at the US-Mexico border that separates them, they wrestle with questions of identity, duty and belonging. “Tres minutos comes at a time in our country,” remarks composer Benavides, “when we have a refugee crisis, and we have the choice to make it better or make it worse.”
Those who attended the opera’s premieres this May in Seattle and San Francisco were deeply affected. One audience member commented: “Tres minutos reminds us that beyond the political arguments about immigration policy, immigrants are actual people with real lives, deep emotions and complicated relationships.”
From September 15 through October 15, a cinema-quality video of this vital work will be available for online viewing for an access charge of $10 for a 72-hour viewing period.