20 Apr 2005

Menotti's The Consul in Arizona

Even though no sensation-hungry opera director has tampered with Gian Carlo Menotti’s The Consul to “update” the work in today’s all-too-common effort to make opera “relevant” to modern audiences, this half-century-old opera has not lost one iota of such relevancy.

Arizona Opera's 'The Consul' a haunting depiction of cruelty

Dimitri Drobatschewsky [Arizona Republic, 20 Apr 05]

Even though no sensation-hungry opera director has tampered with Gian Carlo Menotti's The Consul to "update" the work in today's all-too-common effort to make opera "relevant" to modern audiences, this half-century-old opera has not lost one iota of such relevancy.

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