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An American Dream tackles Japanese-American internment during WWII

by Deanna Isaacs

Lyric Opera's outreach arm presents a contemporary chamber opera that grew out of two true stories. This is what the bad guys did in WWII: rounded up entire families of innocent citizens on the basis of inherited group identity, tore them from their homes, businesses, schools, and jobs, and sent them to concentration camps. This is what the good guys did in WWII: rounded up entire familie…

SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 1:39pm on March 12, 2019