Last week, the Metropolitan Opera presented Thomas Ades’ “The Tempest,” in a new production that used the opera house as a metaphor for the island in the storm. This week, Mother Nature upped director Robert Lepage’s concept by unleashing a tempest of its own onto the island of Manhattan, making Ades’ opera a metaphor for the New York City arts community as it struggles to regroup after …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:39PM on October 30, 2012