I attended Chicago Opera Theater's production of John Adams' A Flowering Tree. It was a beautiful production, excellently stage-managed my friend Shawn. The music, though sometimes repetitive and drivingly rhythmic, which is typical of John Adams, had moments of greatness. There were some exquisite chords. The cast managed Adams' crazy vocal writing (now high, now low, now super-high, now super-low) very well, and a lot of the English came through. It's sometimes even harder to understand opera when it's sung in English! This show is RECOMMENDED.
I attended Chicago Opera Theater's production of John Adams' A Flowering Tree. It was a beautiful production, excellently stage-managed my friend Shawn. The music, though sometimes repetitive and drivingly rhythmic, which is typical of John Adams, had moments of greatness. There were some exquisite chords. The cast managed Adams' crazy vocal writing (now high, now low, now super-high, now super-low) very well, and a lot of the English came through. It's sometimes even harder to understand opera when it's sung in English! This show is RECOMMENDED.
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