With “Shifting Ground,” a commissioning and recording project, Kenney is approaching Baroque music as the start of something contemporary.
Hear how composer Paul Moravec and librettist Mark Campbell approached the adaptation in a new recording from Lyric Opera of Kansas City.
Barrie Kosky and Suzanne Andrade’s richly imagined production is a visual feast, though sometimes at the cost of the music and the action.
Brett Mitchell’s inaugural season as music director is the next chapter in the orchestra’s nearly century-long history.