The opening line of “Dreamers,” the new oratorio from composer Jimmy López and librettist Nilo Cruz premiering March 17 at UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall, harks back to the beginning of time, the inevitability of motion, of migration as an element of nature:
“Before the divide of land, before everything and nothing, there was the will to migrate,” it begins.
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