Tag: Einstein on the Beach

  • Opera, Real and Surreal

    Opera, Real and Surreal

    “Opera permits us to go into a world that is not real.” This was spoken by Nicole Paiement, artistic director of Opera Parallèle, about halfway through a panel discussion of storytelling in opera at Opera America’s New Works Forum, held last week in New York. I was there because Judgment of Midas, the…