Opera Theatre of Saint Louis does its best to give magic in its summer productions of Roméo et Juliette and A Streetcar Named Desired.
Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Hildegard gives the Middle Ages the Bridgerton treatment at the Prototype Festival.
The beginning of Mary Kouyoumdjian’s Adoration is marked by silence. The young Simon, played by Sammy Ivany, lies on his stomach, scribbling in a notebook.
The production is at all times visually arresting, but it’s also extremely distracting.
For those who like their Handel loud, with no forfeit of baroque finesse, one promising solution is to make the hall smaller.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
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