Opera Review: At BAM, Huang Ruo's 'Angel Island'
Opera Review: At BAM, Huang Ruo’s ‘Angel Island’ is a minimalist opera set in an immigrant detention camp.
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Opera Review: At BAM, Huang Ruo’s ‘Angel Island’ is a minimalist opera set in an immigrant detention camp.
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Huang Ruo’s artistically bold, viscerally devastating ANGEL ISLAND had its local debut the other night at BAM’s Harvey Theatre on Brooklyn’s Fulton Street, produced by Beth Morrison Projects (BMP) and BAM. Its New York premiere is part of the annual Prototype Festival of opera theatre-music theatre--co-founded by BMP and HERE--which has been bringing challenging contemporary works of different stripes to town since 2013.
The offerings at this annual presentation of new opera and music theater tend to be politically charged, scrappy and stirring.
Powerful multimedia opera honors untold stories of Chinese immigrants