Hungarian composer Peter Eötvös has an eclectic style he applies to operatic settings of diverse materials. At one time he took on the thankless task of writing an opera based on the sprawling Tony Kushner play Angels in America. The 1994 Gabriel García Márquez novella Love and Other Demons would seem only slightly easier, but in fact Eötvös makes some headway. It may be that this is the kind of opera more appreciated by singers than by audiences; soprano, Allison Bell, and two tenors Robert Brubaker and John Graham-Hall, ...
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Hungarian composer Peter Eötvös has an eclectic style he applies to operatic settings of diverse materials. At one time he took on the thankless task of writing an opera based on the sprawling Tony Kushner play Angels in America. The 1994 Gabriel García Márquez novella Love and Other Demons would seem only slightly easier, but in fact Eötvös makes some headway. It may be that this is the kind of opera more appreciated by singers than by audiences; soprano, Allison Bell, and two tenors Robert Brubaker and John Graham-Hall, are pushed just to their limits but not beyond in this live recording of a 2008 production at Britain's Glyndebourne opera house for which the work was commissioned. But Eötvös does well to focus on the magical aspect of García Márquez's prose, especially strong in this story of a girl who is infected with rabies and whose red hair continues to grow after her death. Neither he nor librettist Kornél Hamvai (writing in English) tries to convey the nature of García Márquez's prose, nor...
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