The singers and the orchestra carry the show, but where do they carry it?
The Princeton Festival has long been a “Little Engine that Could,” but the current operatic offering, John Adams’ Nixon in China, is a good deal more than that.
You don’t often hear the grand operas of Benjamin Britten on smaller stages.
The grand illusion is that we know it all. From four hundred years of opera, we’ve distilled the worthy survivors.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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