Lackluster music is the weak link in `Dangerous Liaisons'.(Arts)(Opera)

From: The Washington Times (Washington, DC) | Date: March 15, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

They say love is better the second time around. But is the same thing true for a new opera? Thursday at the Kennedy Center, the Washington Opera decided to find out by mounting a retooled version of American composer Conrad Susa's "The Dangerous Liaisons," which premiered in San Francisco in 1994. As for the East Coast premiere, well . . . we'll get to that.

For fans of racy French epistolary novels - or for those who love films and plays derived from racy French epistolary novels - Mr. Susa's opera is based on Pierre Choderlos de Laclos' cynical 1782 masterpiece, "Les ...

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