Maria de Buenos Aires

Maria de Buenos Aires, an opera of “stunning originality,” pulses to the passion and beat of Astor Piazzolla’s revolutionary nuevo tango and Horacio Ferrer’s mesmerizing, imaginative libretto. Long Beach Opera?s new production sets Piazzolla’s masterpiece during Argentina?s “Dirty War,” the period between 1976 and 1983 when the country was governed by military juntas which controlled the populace through state-sponsored terrorism.