David Lang's whisper opera: Intimate impossibilities at the Mostly Mozart Festival

By Rebecca Lentjes, 12 August 2013

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Reviewed at Lincoln Center: Clark Studio Theater, New York City on 10 August 2013

Lang, the whisper opera

International Contemporary Ensemble

Tony Arnold, Soprano

Jim Findlay, Director

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It's not really an opera (or even an oratorio), but Ted Hearne's The Source is important and engaging.

****1

A ghost of an opera at BAM

Jacob Slattery, 7th September

David Lang’s new opera the loser opened the Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Wednesday night, but simply lacked theatricality.

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Rebecca Lentjes

Rebecca graduated from New York University in 2012, where she studied Music and Romance Languages. She now works as an assistant editor at RILM (Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale) and as manager of contemporary music collective ensemble mise-en.