The Industry Does Two Operas at Once in The Comet / Poppea
By Lev Mamuya
6/17/24 San Francisco Classical Voice
The two constituent scores found moments of synthesis, analysis, and genuine play in counterpoint, helped along by Douglas Kearney’s ingenious blended libretto…[George Lewis’s] music is taut as ever, inserting itself in agile and fluid dialogue with Poppea, and the assembled players handled Lewis’s gestural language with aplomb.
