Los Angeles Master Chorale / Anmeldelser

...the choreography never overwhelms or distracts from the music. It feels organic, subtle and heartfelt and somehow makes the experience feel emotionally complete. Sublime.

Sellars has found an ingenious physical form for this music, but it takes a special group of singers to truly embody the heightened extremes of emotion contained within Lasso’s score. The singers seem always crystal clear on the motivations and ideas behind each of Sellars’ tableaus, and by the end they seem to have almost reached the divine.