'Appomattox' pro and con

The reviews are coming in for the revised, Civil War-to-civil rights version of “Appomattox” by Philip Glass and Christopher Hampton, whose Washington National Opera production opened on Nov. 14 at the Kennedy Center.

The Washington Post’s Anne Midgette hails the opera as evidence of Glass’ “mastery in the genre” and as being “as deeply moving as anything I’ve seen in opera” . . .

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/appomattox-a-superb-night-at-the-opera/2015/11/15/29e46610-8b63-11e5-9a07-453018f9a0ec_story.html

Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, reviewing for The New York Times, calls it “a frustratingly uneven work that presents well-known historical facts on a conveyor belt of forgettable music” . . .

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/16/arts/music/review-appomattox-at-the-kennedy-center.html

“Appomattox” runs through Nov. 22.