Short Take: DF Looks at Sondheim’s Assassins at the Arden Theatre
Director Terry Nolen’s second production of this Sondheim work is an intriguingly different take on the piece.
Director Terry Nolen’s second production of this Sondheim work is an intriguingly different take on the piece.
Unholy Wars is most an opera when it is, with “Lascia ch’io pianga,” actually an opera.
In sum: not a perfect Simon Boccanegra—is there such a thing?—but a grand and often great one.
In 90 minutes, Rene Orth’s riveting work gives us everything we could want in a new opera.