By Opera Wire / Latinx Opera ‘El Imperio de la Luz’ Wins Major Award

Date: 2021/04/02

Name of the Journalist and/or Media: By Logal Martell / Opera Wire

Country / City: Global - USA / New York, NY

Original headline: Latinx Opera ‘El Imperio de la Luz’ Wins Major Award

Description of the Publication: The publication examines the opera El Imperio de la Luz, conceived and created by Maestro Diego Barbosa-Vásquez, which was the recipient of an innovation award jointly granted by the Jacobs School of Music and the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University on February 6, 2021. The opera is grounded in the Community Opera model—an original concept developed by Maestro Barbosa-Vásquez—representing an innovative artistic and institutional framework derived from his pioneering research. This model brings together professional artists, students, and community members in a collaborative process of creation, production, and performance. The publication further details Maestro Barbosa-Vásquez’s decisive leadership throughout the development of the opera, his artistic and structural relationship as one of the co-creators, and an in-depth exploration of the opera’s creative, conceptual, and organizational dimensions.

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