Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Anthony Davis transcends borders with new opera

Pulitzer Prize-winning opera composer and UC San Diego professor Anthony Davis didn’t have to look beyond his backyard - figuratively and (almost) literally - for inspiration for his latest musical opus, “Pancho Rabbit and The Coyote.”

Produced by the nonprofit presenting organization Bodhi Tree Concerts, the bilinguarl opera’s world premiere will take place Saturday and next Sunday at Chula Vista’s Southwestern College Performing Arts Center in Chula Vista, followed by a Jan 31 performance at Tijuana’s Casa de Cultura.

The chamber opera is based on author and illustrator Duncan Tonatiuh’s 2013 children’s book, “Pancho Rabbit and The Coyote: A Migrant’s Tale.” It received the Tomás Rivera Mexican-American Children’s Book Award in 2014 and was initially inspired by “Little REd Riding Hood,” witht he big bad wolf character replaced by a coyote who smuggles people into the US from Mexico.

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