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Review: 'Appomattox': Opera of the soul
Jason Victor Serinus, The Examiner Oct 6, 2007 12:35 PM (801 days ago)SAN FRANCISCO Confound that Philip Glass! How he has managed to co-create a gripping, heart-wrenching, socially prescient, and deeply human new opera, all while writing dirge-like variations of the same repeated chords, rising and falling arpeggios, and simple drones that he’s composed for well over 35 years, is beyond me. Nonetheless, in the San Francisco Opera world premiere of 'Appomattox,' which runs for six more performances through Oct. 24, he’s created a musical/theatrical experience so thoroughly involving as to invoke thoughts of 'masterpiece.'
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