Chicago Classical Review » » Rough edges need polishing in new opera of cult film “La Jetée”
, 2022-11-09 14:08:43,
It seems rather presumptuous of Access Contemporary Music and Chicago Fringe Opera to charge up to $30 for admission to a workshop performance of a collaboration billed in advance as a concert performance.
A fine distinction, perhaps, but the groups owe it to their respective followings to be more candid about whether their first joint venture is a finished music theater work awaiting a full staging, or still a work-in-progress.
There was no escaping the latter impression at Tuesday’s premiere by ACM and Fringe Opera of La Jetée, an 80-minute adaptation of writer-director Chris Marker’s 1962 cult science-fiction film of the same name. The enthusiastic audience that flocked to Constellation Chicago on the city’s Northwest Side learned of its workshop status at that time. The event was livestreamed and a repeat performance is scheduled at the club on Thursday night.
While the premiere of this new chamber opera in its present form—with music by Seth Boustead (executive director and co-founder of ACM) and libretto by J. Robert Lennon—had its rough edges, there was enough going on in the score and its performance by a cast of four solo singers, ACM’s 13-member Palomar Ensemble and the chamber chorus Lux Cantorum Chicago to suggest the collaborators are at least on the right track.
Even allowing for the inbuilt…
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