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.
Janos Gereben/SF
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