![]() ![]() Kushner's demotic torrent of language, drawn from the melting pot of ethnic and regional American speech, makes the characters complex and surprising, the way people are. The extreme condensation of the play in Mari Mizei's libretto jettisons all but the personal and apocalyptic dimensions. Whether Peter Eötvös's musical adaptation fulfills the play's operatic potential remains an open question, despite the overall excellence of Opera Unlimited's American premiere production Friday night. ![]() It is full of larger-than-life characters who deliver long aria-speeches of interior questioning characters meet each other in dream landscapes and there are interwoven, simultaneous episodes that resemble operatic ensembles. Tony Kushner's ``Angels in America" is an epic, historical, political, personal, and apocalyptic drama that is also an opera waiting to happen. Friday night (repeats Tuesday night and Saturday, a matinee) ![]()
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