OPINION: Reviving Shoddy Old Works Keeps Opera Alive
A desperate young woman fights off the attentions of a lust-crazed brute... As opera plots go, this situation ticks every box for a great show, and has been used in - roughly speaking - a gazillion operas. So why doesn't Mascagni's rarely-performed "Iris", with its ravishing score and aforementioned plot, leap into the "lost masterpiece" category? Enescu's gorgeous-sounding "Oedipe" is based on the eternally fascinat…
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