Best New Opera

Contemporary opera tends to take itself very seriously. Not Three Way. The contemporary piece that Nashville Opera’s John Hoomes staged in January at TPAC was like a wacky combination of Sex and the City and The Twilight Zone. Characters included a paranoid android who functioned as a high-tech sexual aide, a dominatrix in thigh-high leather boots and her client, who insisted on being called Polly Puddlepanties. Despite its themes, the opera wasn’t all nonsense. Composer Robert Paterson and librettist David Cote worked confidently in the Mozart-Da Ponte tradition, creating arias of beauty and humor. JOHN PITCHER

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