Brilliant? According to whom?
Early on in the week, based upon a few tweets from chambermusiciantoday and Sequenza21, I checked out Elodie Lauten’s ‘new’ opera The Death of Don Juan (apparently it originated in the 80s, but this is the first staging and it was radically overhauled). The timing was right, I was going to be in the neighborhood, and at only $15, it seemed worth taking a chance on.
The performance was, in short, underwhelming. It was scrappy and independent with rough edges and some questionable Read the rest of this entry →