The square debuted in Jan during a Teatro Real in Madrid and was also promote online. This week, “The Perfect American” non-stop in London during a English National Opera in a same entertainment by Phelim McDermott.

Adapted from a novel by Peter Stephan Jungk, a English-language show is set mostly in Southern California and depicts Disney nearby death, his mind roving by time. As in Madrid, baritone Christopher Purves plays Disney, who is visited via a march of a story by his wife, Lillian; his brother, Roy, and strangely by Andy Warhol and Abraham Lincoln.

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The Walt Disney Co. has reportedly not given accede for a show to use any of a images, so McDermott has come adult with a artistic brew of digitial video projections and other workarounds.

The executive formerly staged Glass’ “Satyagraha,” formed on a life of Mahatma Gandhi, to good commend during ENO and after during a Metropolitan Opera in New York. “The Perfect American” is scheduled to run during London’s Coliseum by Jun 28.

In his examination of a Madrid production, Times song censor Mark Swed called it “a good American show that needs to be seen in L.A. And it is also a usually good L.A. opera.” 

The British critics have a significantly some-more disastrous verdict. Andrew Clements of The Guardian wrote that while Glass’ song is “as finely crafted as ever, a categorical duty is simply to support a account in a neutral way, never holding a thespian beginning or melancholy to supply what is so apparently lacking in a work’s dramaturgy.”

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The Telegraph’s Rupert Christiansen wasn’t tender either, job it “far from a misfortune of [Glass’] efforts… is this a destiny of opera? we do wish not.”

Richard Fairman wrote in The Financial Times that a base of a opera’s problem is a words by Rudy Wurlitzer, that “has no account expostulate and labours each point. By contrast, Glass’s measure finds a composer going down an talented new path, exploring new sounds, a new fluidity of movement, and even a lurch here and there of Disneyesque sentimentality.”

The Independent’s Michael Church described “The Perfect American” as “less an show than a unsuccessful try during Citizen Kane, and there’s a immeasurable void during a heart.” 

Here’s a video excerpt from “The Perfect American” taken during a premiere in Madrid.

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