Stearns: Garner Opera Works

Michigan Opera Theatre created a lot of buzz about its Richard Danielpour/Toni Morrison opera “Margaret Garner”, writes David Stearns. “It’ll do fine (I think). Dramaturgical lapses are there, but the strengths of Margaret Garner are so considerable and wide-ranging that the piece is legitimately destined to make new friends for opera without alienating old ones.”