Master-Pieces, A Chamber Opera
However, it's not what we normally think of as an opera. And the performance, characterized by both moving strengths and disconcerting weaknesses, unfolded, awkwardly and interestingly … and then, at the end, quite powerfully … as a not-opera. Typically, operas' drama lies in their plots; as audiences, when we're moved, it's because we've witnessed something dramatic. But in this performance of Kotik's "Master-Pi…