Flamenco, Spanish poet intersect in opera

Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca wrote: "I know there is no straight road/ No straight road in this world/ Only a giant labyrinth/ Of intersecting crossroads."

Lives twine and intersect in richly imagined episodes of byzantine complexity in Osvaldo Golijov's opera "Ainadamar," which Opera Parallele, under Nicole Paiement's direction, performs this weekend at the Yerba Buena Center's Lam Research Theater.

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