Naxos' release of Glimmerglass Opera's production of Stephen Hartke's The Greater Good, or The Passion of Boule de Suif, is an important contribution to the archive of recorded American opera. The opera, with a fine libretto by Philip Littell and based on a short story by Guy de Maupassant, received its premiere in summer 2006. The plot is essentially very simple: in the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War, a group of French travelers fleeing the occupying army is prevented from proceeding to safe territory until one of ...
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Naxos' release of Glimmerglass Opera's production of Stephen Hartke's The Greater Good, or The Passion of Boule de Suif, is an important contribution to the archive of recorded American opera. The opera, with a fine libretto by Philip Littell and based on a short story by Guy de Maupassant, received its premiere in summer 2006. The plot is essentially very simple: in the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War, a group of French travelers fleeing the occupying army is prevented from proceeding to safe territory until one of them, Boule de Suif, a notorious prostitute, agrees to sleep with a Prussian officer. She adamantly refuses, but is finally persuaded by the earnest entreaties of her compatriots, who shamefully scorn her once the deed is done. The opera holds our interest for its two-and-a-half-hour length because it has enough layers of complexity to keep it intriguing, and the numerous characters -- the travelers, the coachman, and the innkeepers -- are so clearly individuated, making it a genuine...
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