Performer: Geoffrey McDonald

A disappointing decision to downplay the ghosts and uneven performances made for a difficult and distracting in situ staging of Britten's adaptation of the classic Henry James thriller. 

A remarkable opera about Alzheimer’s mesmerizes audience thanks to two extraordinary women “d’un certain age”.

Kevin Puts effectively shapes the time-traveling structure with distinctive sound worlds as thirty dramatic vignettes unfold across a little more than an hour and a half.

The opera can be summed up by a line sung by the Countess in Act 4: “You’re killing her with all this noise.”

New York’s three year old, wonderfully innovative On Site Opera, has scored another success with a four-performance run of Giovanni Paisiello’s 1782 Il barbiere di Siviglia.