Project BLANK's world premiere production was presented last weekend at Bread & Salt in Logan Heights
When Karel Čapek wrote his play “Rossum’s Universal Robots” in 1920, the battle against machines replacing human labor had been fought for more than a century, with humans invariably losing. Now, more than 100 years later, L.A. composer Carolyn Chen has updated the play for her opera “The Robots.” The quandaries she raised in Project BLANK’s production at Bread & Salt in Logan Heights on Saturday demonstrated the profundity and timeliness of Čapek’s insights.
Leytham brought whimsy and optimism — or was that con artist charm? — to Domin along with her secure tone and intonation. Despite the score’s deficiencies, the vocalists were on top of their parts and spot-on in their roles. As the ingénue Helena, soprano Mariana Flores-Bucio had a lilting voice, nowhere more so than in her Act II aria, “Was I wrong?,” which gave her a chance to open up and soar. Baritone Jonathan Nussman portrayed Mr.
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