12.17.18

Mark-Anthony Turnage redefined British opera with Greek, his 80-minute updating of the Oedipus myth to modern, working-class London, with a raucous score and a perversely happy ending. But that was in a different world: 1988. Nowadays, Thomas Adès seems to be the defining composer of British opera, like it or not. And when Greek arrived at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Dec. … [Read more...] about Mark-Anthony Turnage’s ‘Greek’ is back after 30 years — and its tattoos still aren’t smeared