“Akama-Makia shone like burnished metal in both the meditative “If Singing is Free” by Mason Bynes and the program’s closing piece, the especially appropriate “Golden Days” by William Grant Still.”
Photo by Nikola Printz
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“Akama-Makia shone like burnished metal in both the meditative “If Singing is Free” by Mason Bynes and the program’s closing piece, the especially appropriate “Golden Days” by William Grant Still.”
Photo by Nikola Printz
A stream-of-consciousness cry of psychological anguish. Based on the devastating 2000 play by Sarah Kane, 4.48 Psychosis charts the fragmented mind of a patient struggling with clinical depression and the often-violent clash between selfhood and psychiatric intervention. Pulsing with urgency, the opera’s elliptical text is underpinned by Philip Venables’s thrilling, and at times, startling, score.
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