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Opera;Into the Heart of A Monster;Libby Larsen's Stunning `Frankenstein'

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19900526
Author:Joseph McLellan

Libby Larsen's new opera "Frankenstein" uses high technology to warn against the dangers of high technology. Its music is always powerful, sometimes beautiful, never used for purely musical value but for theatrical effectiveness.

In its world premiere tonight at the World Theater here, "Frankenstein, the Modern Prometheus" took a story that everyone knows-either from Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's novel or from the 1931 movie starring Boris Karloff-and made it fresh, gave it unprecedented visual and sonic dimensions and explored its philosophical implications with a post-Chernobyl intensity.

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