Patience and fortitude
Gregory Spears’ latest opera Castor and Patience, with a libretto by former US Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winner Tracy K. Smith, was commissioned by Cincinnati Opera to celebrate its centennial season in 2020.
Vita Tzykun
4 pieces since 2014 — at 2 companies, most often at Lyric Opera of Chicago.
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I found Fellow Travelers intellectually and politically riveting, musically thrilling, and profoundly moving. It was a triumph.
Reframing
The production is at all times visually arresting, but it’s also extremely distracting.
Orpheus goes downtown
Marc-Antoine Charpentier came along at the wrong time for a composer of French opera.