Opera's resident artists perform powerful and moving 'Lucretia'

Post Gazette: "It started with Livy, the ancient historian who chronicled how the rape and subsequent suicide of a general's virtuous wife incited the Romans to overthrow the occupying Etruscans. The subject was later taken up in the writings of Ovid, St. Augustine and Shakespeare; in paintings by Titian, Botticelli, Raphael and many more. A 1931 play by French author Andre Obey told the story in a series of dramatic scenes narrated by a Greek-style male and female 'chorus,' who comment but do not participate in the action. A year later Thornton Wilder adapted Obey's play for Broadway."