Let Us Hope It Is Shorter Than The Book
I'll confess, I started Gertrude Stein's sprawling generational novel "The Making of Americans" many years ago. I'll also confess I'm still stuck on page 345. That leaves me 2/3 of the book to still cover. Alas, opera has come to the rescue and I don't need to finish reading it. The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis has just premiered an opera based on Stein's cubist novel that traces the history of Americans -- all Americans -- past, present, and future. It is complex stuff and the production seems to rise to the occasion using multimedia components to bridge narrative time and space. You can read about it here , which is about 955 pages less than the actual book. Or if you're really lazy, listen to the story below. -- Edward