The opera was very good. We had great ($75, but free to us) seats. After the show, we stayed for the talk-back and the people who played the brother and sister came and talked. The boy is only 13 years old (the character is supposed to be 10) and this was his first opera! He had won some chorister awards and has a great voice. The young woman who played the 8-year old sister was in her early 20s and is also from England. The talk-back was really interesting and informative. Evidently, they have a talk-back after every performance, but the same actors don't speak after each performance. People had a lot to say about the ambiguity of the piece and how they felt about it all. A couple of people had read the original book and a lot of people had never seen it before.
