Washington National Opera,Washington DCA modern take on the work shifts its focus from the civil war – and while the opera is flawed, it offers a potent reflection on modern racial politicsThere is greatness in the newly expanded version of Appomattox. But it is an incomplete greatness. And that fragmentary quality – occasionally frustrating at a level of drama, and often intellectually engaging,on the whole unfinished-feeling – is, by now, and virtually piece of the design of this civil war-meets-civil rights opera from composer Philip Glass and librettist Christopher Hampton.
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Source: theguardian.com