The Washington Post, June 19th, 2000
Lady Murasaki Shikibu's massive and episodic novel, "The Tale of Genji," is an unlikely source for an opera. Running some 1,000 pages, it has the particular charm of very long books: It is a world the reader can explore for days without coming to its limits--or encountering too many other fellow travelers. The Opera Theatre of St. Louis, an adventurous company that has collaborated twice before with the Japanese composer Minoru Miki, presented the world premiere of Miki's "The Tale of Genji" last week (the production runs through Sunday). By concentrating on the first four of the tale's six se...
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