The great Dalai Lama once said, “whenever there is a challenge, there is also an opportunity to face it, to demonstrate and develop our will and determination.”
“Once upon a time / Lived a foolish king. / Mocking Death, his crime, / Pure chaos he bring.”
Marc-Antoine Charpentier came along at the wrong time for a composer of French opera.
In the program for Opera Omnia’s production of Monteverdi’s Il ritorno di Ulisse, Crystal Manich, the company’s stage director, speaks of producing “baroque works in non-traditional ways.”
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
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