Mark Adamo has a few comments of his own posted at his web site.
Ranging from modified rapture to, ah, very, very negative:
- Lisa Hirsch, SFCV
- Joshua Kosman, Chronicle
- Richard Scheinin, Mercury-News
- Janos Gereben, Examiner
- Mark Swed, LA Times
- Anthony Tommasini, NY Times
- Allan Ulrich, Financial Times
- Lawrence Johnson, Classical Review
- Alex Ross, The New Yorker (must be a digital subscriber or pick up the printed NYer)
- Philip Campbell, BAR
- Opera Tattler
- SF Mike, S.F. Civic Center
- John Marcher, A Beast in a Jungle
- Patrick Vaz, The Reverberate Hills
- Lisa Hirsch, blog posting
- Pamela Feinsilber, HuffPost
- Chloe Veltman, Lies Like Truth
- Jeffrey McMillan, Bachtrack
- Beth Spotswood?, CBS
- Stephen Smoliar, Examiner.com
- Opera Warhorses: First performance and last performance
- Sid Chen, NewMusicBox
- Kelsey Walsh, I Care If You Listen
No link to David Littlejohn's expected WSJ review yet. Georgia Rowe's Contra Costa Times article, which I originally listed above, is a preview, not a review.
I look forward to reading your extended thoughts on this opera. I wonder how they will have changed (if at all) with the passage of a few weeks. For myself, I prepared for the worst, given the scathing reviews, but for some reason the work touched me. Cooke and Burden were outstanding, and I didn't have a problem with the sung footnotes (I interpreted them as self-deprecating commentary by Adamo on his own earnestness and laughed along with other audience members). I didn't care for the rhyming verse of the libretto but was able to look past it. (I do hope Adamo gives up his preference for rhyming in his next project). Overall, I found the production thought-provoking, even if it was more intellectual than emotional. I enjoyed it so much, in fact, that I attended the second performance for which I had a ticket, forgoing the opportunity to exchange it for another night at Hoffmann.
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