Eastman Opera Theatre on Friday presented the second of four performances in Kilbourn Hall of Philip Glass’s music theater work “Hydrogen Jukebox,” featuring the words of Beat poet Allen Ginsberg. What transpired was more like a stream of surreal and illusory fragments than anything approaching traditional opera: An imposing hall, like some forbidden church sanctuary. […]
Hydrogen Jukebox
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“Hydrogen Jukebox” bends the opera genre
In 1966, Allen Ginsberg penned ecstatic yet defiant words in his poem “Wichita Vortex Sutra”: “I claim my birthright! … Joy reborn after the vast sadness of War Gods! A lone man talking to myself, no house in the brown vastness to hear, imagining the throng of Selves that make this nation one body of […]
