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Anne Midgette is Chief Classical Music Critic for The Washington Post. Her article, "The top 35 female composers in classical music," was written in response to National Public Radio's July 2017 article

West Edge Opera, formerly Berkeley Opera, is a leading Bay Area opera company. As part of their 2017 - 2018 season, they will be staging Libby Larsen's Frankenstein.

New archetypes aren’t minted very often, but Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is certainly among them. Two hundred years after the publication of the novel, West Edge presents Libby Larsen’s operatic treatment with its resonant themes of ego, ambition, and the war between reason and emotion. Working with frequent