August 11, 2018
The darkest corners of opera shine through in West Edge Opera’s “Quartett”
Beginning their 2018 Festival with Debussy’s only opera, a love triangle sketched in delicate sensuality, West Edge Opera closed its summer offerings with Luca Francesconi’s Quartett, an operatic staging of Heiner Muller’s 1982 play of the same name, both inspired by Laclos’ 18th-century novel, Les liaisons dangereuses. Very different fare.
There are crucial similarities, however, not only the operas’ focus on love and sexuality, suppressed or distorted, but more...