Ambitious New Opera Stagings Fail to Impress

The current opera season got off to an unusually bad start in the months leading up to the end of 2010. The Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theater brought to the stage Giuseppe Verdi’s “La forza del destino” and the Pokrovsky Chamber Musical Theater offered a reconstruction of its 1978 staging of Igor Stravinsky’s “The Rake’s Progress.”