Joshua Barone

“Still, it doesn’t move well or logically.”

“An early contender for one of this century’s great operas, it premiered in 2021, two years before the death of its composer, Kaija Saariaho.”

“It’s a scene that captures what makes this new ‘Tristan’ the event of the season at the Met.”

“They deliver three hours of drama, a winding tale of madness and thwarted love in the English Civil War, with agile bravura, graceful sensitivity and, of course, beautiful singing.”

“Like a skipping stone, Bates’s adaptation bounces across Chabon’s novel while never really plunging into it, for a treatment that is both too much for opera and not enough: too much plot, not enough transcendence.”

“She persuasively inhabits a character, imbuing performances of plush lyricism with empathy, sophistication and even a touch of spontaneity.”