PhotoThe cocoon arrives in the jail cell as a stowaway, an unexpected lump in a bowl of prison gruel. When Walker Loats, bored inmate number 1439, plucks it glistening from her spoon, she doesn’t realize that she’s found some company. Once hatched, the fluttering white contents of that cocoon steal the show in “The Echo Drift,” a visually and aurally layered chamber opera about time and punishment at the Baruch Performing Arts Center. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyThe story, though, is the least interesting element of “The Echo Drift,” which has a libretto by Elle Kunnos de Voss and Kathryn Walat. Stark and intricate, propulsive and a little film-noir, “The Echo Drift” is most exciting when it is fast and cacophonous, nearly overwhelming the senses.

Source: New York Times January 14, 2018 17:26 UTC