“Based on two Noh plays, the hypnotic work creates a shimmering world of supernatural encounters…”
By La Cieca
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I’ve been picking away yet again at the mysterious symbiosis between an opera’s words and its music.
For decades thousands and thousands have attended Handel’s Messiah (usually around Christmas or more appropriately near Easter) making it easily one of the most widely known works of classical music.
Among symbolic classical tropes, one of my favorites (perhaps because only another classicist will understand it) is Nessus’ Shirt, an emblem of glory (a promotion, say, or an expensive luxury) that destroys you.
By John Yohalem
