“This production by the Boston Lyric Opera’s experimental Annex outlet, presented only an angular blank wall bisecting the cavernous Cyclorama, yet gave a stark yet moving reading of Phillip Glass’s dark, throbbing adaptation of the Kafka short story.  The performance evoked Kafka’s oppressive vision, not just of a century of mechanized cruelty, but of the helplessness of the individual amid the spiritual crisis of a post-Freudian, God-is-dead world.”

— Boston Classical Review Best Performances 2015

“Enthralling… this gymnastic, super slow-mo rethink suggests the virtues of justice are never black and white.”

— New York Times

“Schlather's eye for space and movement help retain the story's foothold in myth … the opera is framed with restraint, and in ways that allow it to sound its own distinctive, mesmerizing voice.”

— The Boston Globe

“Unforgettable… A true triumph in the company's history.”

— South Shore Critic

BEST PERFORMANCES 2015 — NEW YORK TIMES