11 Apr 2010

An Opera’s Very Long Overture

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/12/arts/music/12spratlan.html

By Daniel J. Wakin [NY Times, 11 April 2010]

Locked away since birth, hidden from human society, ignorant of his fate: such is the story of Prince Segismundo. It is also pretty much the story of an opera about him, “Life Is a Dream.”