DC REVIEW: Anything but Business as Normal in the American Opera Initiative (Washington National Opera) – Twin Cities Arts Reader

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DC REVIEW: Anything but Business as Normal in the American Opera Initiative (Washington National Opera) – Twin Cities Arts Reader

Jonathan Pierce Rhodes (Ari) and Justin Burgess (Gale) in the world premiere of the short opera Hairpiece at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC on Friday, January 19. Photo by Bronwen Sharp. One of the great criticisms of the American opera industry is its obsession with things now more than a century old. Another is that much of the new repertoire feels like the old. So it was anything but business as normal at the Kennedy Center in Washington