AN OPERATIC TRIFECTA, WITH PARALLELS
Opera Parallèle was not content just staging a chamber opera, but rather mounting a troika of simultaneous images in one of the most imaginative productions ever in San Francisco. In the process, it linked a fantasy fairy tale that is millennia old with a vintage 1946 French film as well as a recent Philip Glass score in dazzling counterpoint with one another, assisted by Brian Staufenbiel’s recent movie footage running in between. The triple play elevated the Glass instrumental ensemble’s…