Achieving the Dream: A Pulitzer-Winning Opera’s 32-Year Journey to the Stage

“In 1978, Lewis Spratlan wrote an opera but couldn’t get it staged. In 2000, he won the Pulitzer Prize for the second act of that opera in concert version but still couldn’t get it staged. This summer, Life Is a Dream finally [gets] its world premiere at Santa Fe Opera. Spratlan tells of a work that waited three decades to come to life.”