The Boston Globe, November 2nd, 1992
McTEAGUE Opera by William Bolcom presented by the Lyric Opera of Chicago Saturday night. CHICAGO -- "McTeague" is an American classic twice over. People still read Frank Norris' naturalistic novel of bogus dentistry, greed, murder and agonizing expiration in Death Valley almost a century after he wrote it for a class at Harvard. "Greed," Erich von Stroheim's silent film of "McTeague," stands as a blasted milestone in the history of the movies. Whether William Bolcom's new opera will make "McTeague" a threefold classic is a judgment no one can make until it has enjoyed a better production than ...
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