What I find striking is that both examples of contemporary opera cited here as having a chance of making it into the next century - the Adès/Oakes Tempest and "Batter my heart" from Dr Atomic - rely on early-seventeenth-century sources (Shakespeare, obviously, and Donne's Holy Sonnets). Not sure what to make of that, but it's interesting.
On Showed Up: 'Elektra' at the Metropolitan Opera
What I find striking is that both examples of contemporary opera cited here as having a chance of making it into the next century - the Adès/Oakes Tempest and "Batter my heart" from Dr Atomic - rely on early-seventeenth-century sources (Shakespeare, obviously, and Donne's Holy Sonnets). Not sure what to make of that, but it's interesting.