Being a massive opera star is only a narrow slice of Costanzo’s purview: not only is he a tireless campaigner on behalf of the art form itself, enchanting school children in the Bronx and helping to coordinate Orfeo-spinoff mini-operas in a school in Brooklyn, he has joyously commandeered the project of becoming the historian of his singing genre.
Faye Driscoll’s Weathering begins with voices. Singing, “teeth, skin, mouth,” the performers develop a harmony around the repetition of the word “skin.”