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An Opera’s Very Long Overture

15 years ago
Gary Hoffman

By Daniel J. Wakin [NY Times, 11 April 2010]
Locked away since birth, hidden from human society, ignorant of his fate: such is the story of Prince Segismundo. It is also pretty much the story of an opera about him, “Life Is a Dream.”

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