A Personal Canon
Favorites
A personal list. Biased towards the recent and unexpected.
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Innocence
Kaija Saariaho · libretto by Sofi Oksanen (libretto), Aleksi Barrière (multilingual text)
The audience is implicated.
2021
Aix en Provence original production no longer available.
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M. Butterfly
Huang Ruo · libretto by David Henry Hwang
Explores Orientalism. Reframes and improves the original play. Explodes the Puccini opera.
2022
No commercial recording yet — catch it live when it returns.