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Article: A View from the Bridge.(Review)
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- New Criterion
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- January 1, 2000
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A View from the Bridge, by William Bolcom, at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. October 9-November 5, 1999
The second most eagerly anticipated operatic event of 1999--the first being John Harbison's The Great Gatsby, which opened at the Met in December--took place October 28 in Chicago when the Lyric Opera presented the premiere of William Bolcom's A View From the Bridge. Interest in the new opera, based upon Arthur Miller's 1955 play, was stoked by lavish pre-publicity, including a series in The New York Times which chronicled the development of the work from composition to dress rehearsal to opening night.
Miller's drama concerns the longshoreman Eddie ...