Christopher Alden

18 pieces since 2009 — at 10 companies, most often at New York City Opera.

18 pieces
10 companies
18 years

1 piece as English National Opera — stats above show all coverage for Christopher Alden.

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Two ghosts

The ENO was filled with ghosts last week. Spectral, possibly illusory figures fleetingly materialized in the Internet chatrooms that provide the setting for much of Nico Muhly’s new opera Two Boys, and brutal boarding school memories came back to troubled life in director Christopher Alden’s dark take on Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. 

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