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Mariachi Opera Details Life of Mexican Immigrants in 1940s California

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Most operas these days are lavish productions, performed with big budgets in big city venues. But in rural Tulare County, a small opera company is taking a different approach. It brought together opera and mariachi music, to explore the lives of the farmworkers who came to the United States as part of the bracero program. Valley Public Radio's Ezra David Romero discovers a new art form that weaves together elements of love and struggle.

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