Performance
A Political Opera With Big Ambitions Feels Off-Key
Despite a gorgeous, impressively conducted score, David Lang's prisoner of the state felt overstuffed, unsatisfying, and contradictory.
Gabriel Grossman
Performance
Despite a gorgeous, impressively conducted score, David Lang's prisoner of the state felt overstuffed, unsatisfying, and contradictory.
Performance
Though its music, and use of Mapplethorpe’s photographs and texts by Essex Hemphill and Patti Smith were impressive in their own rights, the performance Triptych (Eyes of One on Another) ultimately appeared cheap, forced, and self-congratulatory.