New Criterion, December 1st, 1998
Mourning Becomes Electra, by Marvin David Levy, at the Lyric Opera of Chicago.
F. Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote that there are no second acts for American lives. While that observation remains contestable, the resurrection this fall of Marvin David Levy's Mourning Becomes Electra, in a new revised version, at the Lyric Opera of Chicago proves that there are definitely second acts in the lives of American operas.
Mourning Becomes Electra was adapted from Eugene O'Neill's six-and-a-half hour dramatic trilogy, which transfers Aeschylus' Oresteia to a New England seaport just after the Civil...
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