My review for Gramophone of the new concert recording of John Adams’s Girls of the Golden West, which has been selected as an Editor’s Choice for June 2024:
The opera repertoire would be considerably diminished if composers had abandoned their ‘problem children’ at the first sign of trouble. John Adams confronted one of the biggest disappointments of his career when Girls of the Golden West was panned by a chorus of critics at its premiere in 2017….
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MEMETERIA by Thomas May 