Review: West Edge Opera’s powerful ‘Dolores’ recalls life of iconic labor activist (Bay City News)

By Caroline Crawford

“…In West Edge’s premiere, created in collaboration with BroadStage in Santa Monica, Opera Southwest, San Diego Opera and Campo Santo at The Magic Theatre, composer Nicolás Lell Benavides’ pulsing, percussive, melodic music drives the point home. The persistent theme performed by a 16-piece orchestra led by Mary Chun has the tonal heft of a constant march which the excellent chorus brings home again and again… “