BRRR’S AND BRAVOS IN OPERA, SOCIALLY DISTANCED
Necessity is anew the mother of invention. Even in opera premieres, a tradition dating back four centuries. When singers and orchestras couldn’t congregate during the pandemic, Opera Parallèle brought to bear imagination with a capital I. They went at their challenge piecemeal with an arresting experiment in animation. Using adaptation techniques from robotics, they brought on well-drawn faces, closeups and graphic-novel formats for Joby Talbot’s one-act mountain-climbing saga reworked for streaming, “Everest,” based on the Dallas Opera world premiere production…