ADORATION | THE WASHINGTON POST - REVIEW

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by: Michael Andor Brodeur | November, 2025

Musically, my heart belongs to “Adoration,” its libretto by 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winner Royce Vavrek, its riveting score by Mary Kouyoumdjian, performed by the Silvana Quartet and the Choir of Trinity Wall Street, conducted by Alarm Will Sound artistic director Alan Pierson. Its strange textures, cacophony of voices, and pervasive unsettling glow combine into an uncanny capture of the information age and its anxieties. It’s an opera that could help shape the future of the form.