THE TIMELIEST OPERA OF THEM ALL
Though in a huge setting, it was a very intimate contemporary opera, with front-row patrons close enough to turn pages for the conductor. And the dark of the tall edifice only intensified the uneasiness of little Sophia escaping for her life in the scary woods which may or may not harbor ghosts and goblins galore. This is “Sophia’s Forest.” If reminiscent of the spiritual inquietude of old works like “Hansel und Gretel,” “Turn of the Screw” and “Transfigured Night,” it’s…
