Title: Go See the T.S. Eliot Play
Review: I got a severe case of deja vu watching Pizzetti's Assassinio nella Cattedrale. It reminds me of Ambroise Thomas' opera Hamlet. Even though I studied French for six years, translating a Shakespeare play into a French opera just doesn't work for me. It loses the subtlety of Shakespeare's English and, worse, appears trite.The same is true with T.S. Eliot's play Murder in the Cathedral as an Italian opera. If I were fluent in Italian I might notice some of the flavor of Eliot, but when I read the English subtitles, I just see a murder of Eliot's play. Beyond that, the opera is boring. Nothing interesting happens.I generally agree with the two earlier reviews of this opera. I just don't understand why they would give it four stars.
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