One of the main problems with My Undying Love was that it did not appear to know what audience it was pitching to.
Flashes of excitement and genuine pathos lit up City Opera’s production of Dolores Claiborne!
If only—if only half the creativity and spectacle that Encompass New Opera Theatre has lavished on its lively production of The Astronaut’s Tale (at the BAM Fisher through Sunday) had been expended on the pretentious libretto by the late Jack Larsonand the quirky, unappealing score by Charles Fussell…
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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