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IT was a fairly big event, in the fairly small world of classical music. This June, Elliot Goldenthal's opera Grendel had its premiere at the Los Angeles Opera, and, about a month later, it traveled to New York, to be the centerpiece of the Lincoln Center Festival. This opera had buzz; and it was not entirely undeserved.
Goldenthal is a versatile composer, having written for the movies, Broadway, ballet--everything. In 2003, he won an Oscar for his score to Frida, one of the dullest movies ever made, despite its promise of swarthy sensuality. (The movie gives the life of Frida Kahlo.)
The director of that movie was Julie Taymor, who, ordinarily, is ...