L’Avenir nous le dira and 7 Minutes in Lyon

L’Avenir nous le dira and 7 Minutes in Lyon

The first a premiere, the second of recent vintage. Both constructed on count downs (the first, one hour, the second, two hours) — thus the Opéra de Lyon’s Winter Festival counterbalanced its sprawling, endless La forza del destino. The L’Avenir nous le dira is a loose equivalent of the expression “time will tell.” Born and educated in Singapore, Paris based composer Diana Soh enthralled us with a one hour piece for 37 singers of the Opéra natio…