Opera: Still Sucky
New York City has a trade imbalance: there are way more "artistic productions" per potential audience member than need be. Rosecrans Baldwin of The Morning News busts out of his alternative zipcode and learns how some of the 10021 lives, surveying the state of dance, symphony, and opera:
There is no good reason to sing It s only a minor head wound as though your entire family was just wiped out by Nazis, unless you re standing on a mammoth set in front of hundreds of people. Or maybe I m a dunce. Like serious dance, opera is not to be laughed at, especially in a major restaging of Marvin David Levy s Mourning Becomes Electra; my wife and I learn this when we realize we are the only people in the highest rows laughing.
