These are art forms that are still new to our culture,” WNO Artistic Director Francesca Zambello told DC Theater Arts in an interview. The program’s aim is not to resuscitate opera so much as to transplant the art form’s vital organs into a whole new body. The cast of Missy Mazzoli’s ‘Proving Up.’ Photo by Scott Suchman.Īt least, that is the vision guiding the American Opera Initiative (AOI) now in its seventh season at the Washington National Opera (WNO). If only the larger-than-life, superhuman art form that opera is could be used to focus our attention on stories that reflect who we are, are not, and are becoming as Americans. If only the run times were not three hours or more. Lavish productions of period piece love stories and power struggles set largely during the time of kings and courtesans in Europe are interesting, but often not interesting enough to generate sufficient funds that keep them viable season after season.
Opera in America has had the stink of death upon it for some time now.
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