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Opera

Whose opera is it anyway?

21 April 2016

1:00 PM

21 April 2016

1:00 PM

Disguises and mistaken identities are a staple of opera, but usually as part of the onstage, not the offstage, action. So what are we to make this week of a Handel opera that isn’t by Handel at all, and a Mozart opera that was largely composed in 1990? As usual in the opera house, there are good — if complicated — explanations.

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