A specter, haunting
Kaija Saariaho’s spectral, shattering Innocence makes its Metropolitan Opera debut.
17 pieces since 2010 — in 11 roles, at 6 companies, most often at Metropolitan Opera.
4 pieces as Metropolitan Opera — stats above show all coverage for Rod Gilfry.
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“None of that sentimental crap, okay?”
It was Matthew Jocelyn’s libretto, with its disorientingly deconstructive approach to its source text, that gave Brett Dean’s Hamlet its identity.
Just because one can write an opera based on a film, does this necessarily indicate that one should?
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