Opera Review: Octavia E. Butler's 'Parable of the Sower' at Strathmore Music Center
In 1993, Octavia E. Butler imagined what awaited 30 years in the future, setting her novel, Parable of the Sower, in 2024. Many of Butler's predictions have proven accurate: fires and drought ravage California, inflation stings, and capitalism runs rampant. This post-apocalyptic novel, peering at our near-future, seems like an inspired source for an opera, […]