I don't know. The music was fantastic, in all the ways you describe. The use of water and paper as both instruments and symbols, the way they stood in for tea and the Book of Tea, respectively, was just mindblowing. The libretto was gorgeous, one of the most poetic English language librettos I've seen. Everything you say about the second act is absolutely true.
And yet I left the opera disgusted at the plot, which was like the lukewarm leftovers from a Puccini opera. There was no moment in the opera that caught your breath in your throat. There was nothing about these characters that distinguished them from any Male Hero, Female Doomed Heroine, and Male Antagonist.
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I don't know. The music was fantastic, in all the ways you describe. The use of water and paper as both instruments and symbols, the way they stood in for tea and the Book of Tea, respectively, was just mindblowing. The libretto was gorgeous, one of the most poetic English language librettos I've seen. Everything you say about the second act is absolutely true.
And yet I left the opera disgusted at the plot, which was like the lukewarm leftovers from a Puccini opera. There was no moment in the opera that caught your breath in your throat. There was nothing about these characters that distinguished them from any Male Hero, Female Doomed Heroine, and Male Antagonist.