Two Boys (English National Opera)
An Operatic murder-mystery? All credit to everyone behind "Two Boys": in the world of contemporary opera, it really is a bit different. A Metropolitan opera commission given its premiere at the English National Opera, it succeeds above all else because it's just good theatre, plain and simple. Nico Muhly's score isn't groundbreaking, Craig Lucas's text isn't as clever as it thinks it is, but brought together in this …