14 Aug 2010

Santa Fe's Busy 'Tales,' Bloody 'Butterfly,' Tinny 'Flute'

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704388504575419283101986708.html?mod=WSJ_ArtsEnt_LifestyleArtEnt_4

By Heidi Waleson [WSJ, 14 August 2010]

Concept-driven opera productions can illuminate or bewilder, and Christopher Alden's version of Offenbach's "Tales of Hoffmann" at the Santa Fe Opera this summer did some of both.