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Not who you're looking for? Others named Simón Bolívar: sculpture in Houston, Texas, U.S. · metro station in Monterrey, Mexico · Venezuelan statesman and military officer (1783–1830) · 1942 film by Miguel Contreras Torres
Simón Bolívar is an opera in two acts composed by Thea Musgrave who also wrote the libretto. It is loosely based on episodes in the life of Simón Bolívar, the military and political leader who played a leading role in freeing Latin American countries from Spanish rule. The opera premiered on 20 January 1995 performed by Virginia Opera at the Harrison Opera House in Norfolk, Virginia. Although the libretto is written in English, the opera was performed at the premiere in Spanish translation. Musgrave extracted a suite from the opera Remembering Bolívar in 1994 and wrote a shortened version of the opera in 2013.