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Angels in America: The Opera “In this transfer, Kushner's tapestry came up threadbare and full of holes” June 2006 Once a play, later a TV mini-series, Tony Kushner's Angels in America has just experienced a rebirth—this time, as an opera. Peter Eötvös's operatic version premiered June 16 in the U.S. in a production by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project and Opera Boston. "In this transfer, Kushner's tapestry came up threadbare and full of holes," wrote Wayman Chin for www.metoperafamily.org. "In shortening their version to just under three hours, Eötvös and his librettist Mari Mezei thinned out plot and development to such an extent that all that was left was a cast of cameo appearances. While all the unforgettable characters were retained — the AIDS victim, the closeted gay Mormon with the Valium-popping wife, the henchman for Joseph McCarthy, the icy mother —... one could hardly feel for them, so fleetingly did they come into view. You had to wonder what someone who had never seen the original on stage — or in its subsequent television version — would have made of this patchwork quilt." |
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