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From: Opera News
Date: 20050201
Author:Paris, Barry

Mark Adamo's long-delayed Lysistrata, opening this month at Houston Grand Opera, doesn't owe a whole lot to Aristophanes

Lysistrata is relocating from the Attic to the operatic realm, and her moving man is Mark Adamo, a composer-playwright who's never at a loss for words or music. Today, his ideas tumble out in a streamof-extreme-consciousness torrent, at once free-wheeling, whimsical, arch, funny and altogether as provocative as Lysia herself, in a new opera based loosely - very loosely - on Aristophanes.

Lysistrata, or The Nude Goddess will have its world premiere at Houston Grand Opera in ...

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