Woman with Eyes Closed, commissioned by Opera Philadelphia for its O20 festival this September, has a plot inspired by the 2012 theft, from the Kunsthal in Rotterdam, of seven paintings now thought to have been burnt in Romania by the mother of one of the thieves. Jerre Dye's libretto and Higdon's 80-minute score, written for […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AM on February 28, 2020