I saw both the Seattle version and the Lincoln Center version. I wish I could give you lots of detail for comparison, but I don’t have that specific a recall. My general impression of Seattle was that it was quite unfinished. In particular, I remember that the accompaniment was performed by a string quartet and piano (or maybe no piano), and that it was quite wrong-headed for a piece that seemed as though it wanted to be operatic. I sought it out at Lincoln Center because I thought it had a lot of potential and I wanted to see if that potential had been achieved. It was, in the score, the orchestrations, and the staging. I did see the LA Opera’s version and enjoyed that one, too.
Bill, in San Diego |
