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PORTLAND -- The Portland Opera let loose a series of firsts Wednesday night with a new theater, a young cast and a Benjamin Britten opera, certainly not a piece among standard opera crowd- pleasers.
For all the experimentation, "The Rape of Lucretia" left a first- night audience assured that the chamber opera with big themes and a tragic ending landed in the perfect venue, even with several unobtrusive TV monitors that enabled the cast to communicate with the upstairs conductor, San Francisco-based Donato Cabrera.
With a 13-piece orchestra playing in a loft above the raised stage, and a cast of eight young singers, small proved beautiful, intense and intimate. Even passionate opera fans complain that many of the art form's celebrated stages -- New York City's grandiose 4,000-seat Metropolitan Opera most obviously -- are too vast for an audience to fully embrace a piece's music and drama. …
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