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ATW Digest - Kaspar Hauser at The Flea - read the reviews

By Andy Propst on Mar 2, 2009 | In ATW Digest

Variety

Review: Kaspar Hauser: A Foundling's Opera
Elizabeth Swados has always gone her own way, and her new music-theater piece, "Kaspar Hauser: A Foundling's Opera," is stamped with some of her familiar idiosyncrasies: the childlike perspective; the atonal operatics; the surreal dramatic landscape; the thematic obsession with abused and abandoned children.

Back Stage

Kaspar Hauser: A Foundling's Opera reviewed by Ronni Reich
The word opera doesn't mean singers roaring at the top of their lungs in stock roles and sustaining fever-pitch drama without respite.

TheaterMania

Review: Kaspar Hauser
Elizabeth Swados' new opera about the legendary German wild child has some good moments, but could use stronger melodies.

nytheatre.com

Review: Kaspar Hauser

CurtainUp

Review: Kaspar Hauser: A Foundling's Opera
Elizabeth Swados and Erin Courtney are not the first to use this story as a creative wellspring, but what they've created is mindbogglingly original and exciting

 

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