En direct, Vidéo: Rechercher des critiques de musique classique, opéra et ballet | Emily Senturia

Director Louisa Proske refracts Handel's tale of warlords and witches through the prism of a juvenile dream world, aided by a game cast headed by Anthony Roth Costanzo.

An opening night of Gregory Spears' opera is more like a dress rehearsal in Boston. 

Turning great novels into opera isn't a new idea - consider Prokofiev's War and Peace or Massenet's Werther - but it can be a tricky business: opera thrives on pace and high drama, while the greatest novels have time and space for reflection and character development.