"Variations on love"

Jorge Calado | Expresso, 07.11.15

"(...) Opera was born in Florence, at the end of the XVI, but quickly became global. Currently, the hopes (and several certainties) lie in composers such as the americans John Adams and Philip Glass (e, perhaps, Nico Muhly), the british George Benjamin and Thomas Adès, the italian Luca Francesconi (...). It is not simple patriotism that leads me to also bet in Vasco Mendonça. (...)”