LPR Presents: Diles que no me maten

At National Sawdust, *Diles que no me maten* arrives in New York as a chamber-scale opera presented with LPR Presents. Drawn from Juan Rulfo’s short story, it follows an old man facing the delayed consequences of a killing, with the weight of land, memory, and inherited violence pressing in on a family and a village. If this marks an NYC premiere, it also signals a widening of the city’s operatic map toward Latin American literary sources. The score treats time less as plot than as punishment, an austere choice that fits the material.