Opera Review: 'The Promised End' at Source Theatre
To those without much opera knowledge, it sounds like the setup to a highbrow joke: what do you get when you cross Giuseppe Verdi's "Requiem" with Shakespeare's "King Lear?" To fans of Verdi, it's almost too obvious: he wrote multiple musical adaptations of Shakespeare and obsessed his entire life over an ultimately unfinished Lear libretto […]