http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/08/27/DDG5REDB511.DTL

   Kiel, Germany -- Bay Area resident Barry Gifford is a novelist
   ("Wild at Heart," "Night People," "Wyoming"), screenwriter ("Lost
   Highway," "City of Ghosts," "Perdita Durango") and poet ("Back
   in America").  He was commissioned to write the libretto for the
   new opera "Madrugada," which had its premiere this month at the
   Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival in Kiel, Germany.  Gifford
   gives his account of the years of teamwork leading to and including
   opening night of the new piece.

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