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Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels's
Omar
, given an overwhelming world premiere at Spoleto USA, musicalizes Omar Ibn Said’s's autobiography of life in Senegal and enslavement in North Carolina into an opera that shouldn't be missed.
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Barrie Kosky's scenically pared down, physically kinetic
Don Giovanni
at the Vienna State Opera seemed to strand Mozart and Da Ponte’s characters on an inhospitable lunar landscape — but prompted its singers to inject their performances with a remarkable dramatic gravitas.
In Review
Given its world premiere at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Tobias Picker’s
Awakenings
, an adaptation of Dr. Oliver Sacks’s 1973 book of the same name, presents a busy, varied score that effectively mirrors the revived patients’ internal states as they grapple with a world both alien and familiar.
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