Earl R. Merrill: Opera’s For The People, So Why Not Make A Mile-Long Opera With 1000 Singers?

Sunday, September 30, 2018

Opera’s For The People, So Why Not Make A Mile-Long Opera With 1000 Singers?

Also, why not get the libretto for it from poets (and utter forces of nature and intellect) Anne Carson and Claudia Rankine, and then set it all on New York’s High Line? Why not indeed. More: “Ms. Rankine said that she assembled her contribution of the libretto — her words are spoken, while Ms. Carson’s are sung — by interviewing people about their tables.”