Joyce DiDonato (mezzo), Time for Three Platoon PLAT29101 65:05 mins Is it a song cycle? An opera? Musical theatre? Kevin Puts’s new work Emily – No Prisoner Be, based on texts by Emily Dickinson, is a

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In Maxim Gorky’s Summerfolk, a privileged and wealthy cohort – lawyer, doctor, engineer and their families gather in an idyllic country retreat in the summer of 1905 to relax, party and gossip. But al