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Through a Glass Darkly |
| Section: THE ARTS / MUSIC |
| Author: Philip Kennicott |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1993 |
| Size: 1,336 Words, 8,559 Characters |
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A century ago, when the industrial world was first beginning to mark self-congratulatory holidays like the quadricentennial of Columbus' first New World voyage, at least two operas appeared to celebrate the event. In Italy, Alberto Franchetti produced an unjustly neglected epic, Cristoforo Colombo, while in the United States Silas Gamaliel Pratt produced a much inferior medley of grand opera clichés called The Triumph of Columbus. Although neither work has stood the test of time, and while public response to the five hundredth anniversary has ranged from apathetic to downright hostile, the Metropolitan Opera nevertheless celebrated the October 12 holiday with a premiere of yet another Columbus opera: Philip Glass' three-act The Voyage. Unfortunately, even if all the mitigating circumstance...
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...ra with apparent ease. Mezzo Tatiana Troyanos was forceful dramatically and musically, and she brought a visceral passion to one of the few political statements in the work (an epilogue passage that begins, "I gave you next best/The Spanish Inquisition"). The rest of the cast was equally assured and admirably sincere about a thankless work that must have cost them weeks of tedious rehearsal.
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