Grendel

My first opera. Really enjoyed it. Excellent music by Elliot Goldenthal , whose name was familiar, and then I realized he did the score for Alien3, which I loved. Julie Taymor, she of The Lion King fame, directed, and one of the highlights of the production was the assembly of grotesque, shuffling, mute monsters residing in the netherworld, looking like fright-beings straight out of a Clive Barker death dream. Thanks to ML for the tix.