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Robert Ashley
Improvement: An Opera for Television
“Before there was Spalding Gray or Laurie Anderson or the 1980s, there was Robert Ashley,” says critic Josef Woodard. With a narrative that equates contemporary characters with settings and events from Spain in 1492, Ashley’s oratorio-like Improvement layers levels of reality through the use of vocalists who alternately speak, sing, and declaim his original text.
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Robert Ashley
Improvement: An Opera for Television
“Before there was Spalding Gray or Laurie Anderson or the 1980s, there was Robert Ashley,” says critic Josef Woodard. With a narrative that equates contemporary characters with settings and events from Spain in 1492, Ashley’s oratorio-like Improvement layers levels of reality through the use of vocalists who alternately speak, sing, and declaim his original text.