{"id":2713,"date":"2015-03-22T18:02:12","date_gmt":"2015-03-22T18:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/166.62.41.2\/~holaamericanews\/2015\/03\/22\/mariachi-meets-opera-in-the-world-premiere-el-pasado-nunca-se-termina\/"},"modified":"2015-03-22T18:02:12","modified_gmt":"2015-03-22T18:02:12","slug":"mariachi-meets-opera-in-the-world-premiere-el-pasado-nunca-se-termina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/mariachi-meets-opera-in-the-world-premiere-el-pasado-nunca-se-termina\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariachi meets opera in the world  premiere: El Pasado Nunca Se Termina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>El Pasado Nunca Se Termina (The Past Is Never Finished), the brand-new mariachi opera commissioned by Lyric Unlimited, has its world-premiere performances in March. The opera reunites the team of Jos\u00e9 \u201cPepe\u201d Mart\u00ednez (music) and Leonard Foglia (librettist\/director), who created the wildly successful Cruzar la Cara de la Luna, which had its first Chicago performances in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.1599998474121px; line-height: 1.3em;\">The acclaimed Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitl\u00e1n, the \u201cWorld\u2019s Best Mariachi,\u201d will return to Chicago for the world-premiere performances of El Pasado on March 28 and 29 at the Civic Opera House. Mariachi Aztl\u00e1n, an award-winning group from the University of Texas Pan-American, appeared in the preview performances that took place at Benito Ju\u00e1rez Community Academy in Pilsen on March 13-15 and later this week at the Genesee Theatre in Waukegan on March 22.<\/span><\/p><div id=\"holaa-1666875802\" class=\"holaa-ad-inside-articles-2\" style=\"margin-top: 2px;margin-bottom: 2px;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><div class=\"holaa-adlabel\">Advertisements<\/div><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.desmoinesperformingarts.org\/whats-on\/series\/summerarts\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"a2t-link\" aria-label=\"HI-SummerSeries-300&#215;250-SP\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/HI-SummerSeries-300x250-SP.jpg\" alt=\"\"  width=\"300\" height=\"250\"  style=\"display: inline-block;\" \/><\/a><\/div><br style=\"clear: both; display: block; float: none;\"\/>\n<p>Morelos, Mexico. 1910. \u00a0The son of a wealthy landowner returns to his parents\u2019 home to find his future\u2026only to fall deeply in love with a humble servant girl. As forbidden personal passions burn, so too do political ambitions. It is the eve of the Mexican Revolution. And what happens on the hacienda changes destinies forever. El Pasado is a gripping, deeply emotional story that takes audiences from long-ago Mexico to present-day Chicago. It is a tale of lovers and freedom fighters, scandal and heroism, hopes and dreams-and the legacy of our ancestors that lives within us all.<\/p>\n<p>{loadposition insidearticle}<\/p>\n<p>El Pasado stars Abigail Santos Villalobos (debut), Daniel Montenegro (debut),Paul La Rosa, and Ricardo Rivera (debut). The cast also features Vanessa Alonzo,Cassandra Zoe Velasco (debut), Luis Ledesma (debut), Sebastien E. De La Cruz(debut), Octavio Moreno, and Miguel Nu\u00f1ez (debut). De La Cruz is the talented young mariachi who has gained a national following both as a semifinalist on NBC\u2019sAmerica\u2019s Got Talent in 2012 \u00a0and from his two performances of the National Anthem during the 2013 NBA Finals. Alonzo and Moreno appeared in Lyric\u2019s 2013 presentations of Cruzar la Cara de la Luna. La Rosa is an alumnus of The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center, Lyric\u2019s premier artist-development program.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12.1599998474121px; line-height: 1.3em;\">Tickets for all performances are available now at the following prices: Genesee Theater tickets are $10 to $25; and Civic Opera House tickets are $25 to $125. 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