The Washington Post, June 23rd, 2001
Dominick Argento's "Miss Havisham's Fire" was born in disappointment. It was written as a star vehicle for Beverly Sills and the New York City Opera, but Sills dropped out of the project. It was, ultimately, performed without Sills in 1979, in a large opera house and under the close and mostly negative scrutiny of the New York press. And then it disappeared. On Thursday evening, a new production of the opera -- the first since the initial staging -- closed at Opera Theatre of St. Louis. "Miss Havisham's Fire" has been revealed as a two-decade-old sleeper; it has emerged, after revision, as a v...
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