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Lysistrata, or The Nude Goddess: Laquita Mitchell (Myrrhine) and Joshua Hopkins (Kinesias) in the Houston Grand Opera production.(HOUSTON)

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From: Opera Canada
Date: 20050622
Author:Albright, William

Lysistrata, or The Nude Goddess, the second opera by Mark Adamo, is loosely based on Aristophanes's classic Greek anti-war play about Athenian women who end a war with Sparta by denying sex to their men until peace is declared. Premiered March 4 by Houston Grand Opera in a co-production with New York City Opera, where it will be performed in the spring of 2006, Lysistrata tends to be very energetic musically; NYCO composer-in-residence Adamo calls his Broadway-tinged score hyper-rhythmic and multilayered. But his only partially successful "tragi-comedy for singers and orchestra" ...

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