How a Tony-Winning Musical Theater Composer Makes Opera
If you're a musical theater composer, Broadway might get you a Tony Award " but it won't get you 50 voices singing onstage. For that kind of scale, Jeanine Tesori, the Tony-winning composer of "Kimberly Akimbo" and "Fun Home," turns to opera: Her latest, "Grounded," has an orchestra of 80 and a cast of 60. […]