OperaGene

Life sure is complicated. You’d think a small community, a rural community in Tennessee surrounded by nature and filled with God-loving people, making a living from the land, would be neighborly and peaceful, people living in harmony, forgiving others so they can receive forgiveness…a little gossip at the worst. Susannah, young and innocent, thought that was her community, bu...

Wolf Trap Opera served up a new production of Giacchino Rossini’s La Cenerentola on Friday night. What fun! My bottom-line conclusion was that this is about as close to a rock and roll show as classical opera has ever delivered. I sometimes muse whether the great composers would have become rock and rollers if they had come along in the 1950’s or 60s; I’d bet on Ross...