Glass' Ambitious Civil War Opera Is Inconsistent
"The sheer hugeness of the Civil War as a subject often proves overwhelming, and there are long sections in the dramatically flaccid first act where "Appomattox" simply runs aground - not only structurally, but in director Robert Woodruff's staging, which elsewhere crackles with a sharp kinetic energy." San Francisco Chronicle 10/08/07

Posted October 8, 2007 07:45 PM