A Chance to Mourn: Cage's Europeras in Detroit

“ There can be no history of operatic modernity that is not also a memorial, no production of new opera that does not account for generic death, no opera written that does not, in its own way, undertake the work of mourning. Which is not an especially sexy marketing campaign. Heartbeats and vigor and accumulating freshness are far, far easier to sell. But at what cost?”