I reviewed the world premiere of Angel's Bone for Hyperallergic:

Angel’s Bone opened the Prototype festival of opera and theater on Wednesday night at the Three Legged Dog Art & Technology Center. Technically a world premiere performance Wednesday night, the work has been in development since 2010 and was shown in a preview at the 2014 Prototype festival. The years of incubation are evident. Angel’s Bone is a fully realized vision. Spare yet complex, the work is a wholly original parable on the danger of greed. The work of composer Du Yun ranges across musical genres, from medieval polyphony to punk, in a way that interweaves and juxtaposes the sacred and the profane without ever degrading to pastiche.

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