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Quality singing in a setting with novel accents at Glimmerglass
Francesca Zambello sets the whole opera as a flashback, showing, during the prelude, the heroine surrounded by doctors and nurses in a sanatorium for patients dying from tuberculosis.
Glimmerglass resurrects The Ghosts of Versailles
Musically and dramatically, Jay Lesenger's production makes a strong case for John Corigliano's sole opera.