KING ARTHUR AT NEW YORK CITY OPERA

Brilliant and creative choreographer-director Mark Morris took an olde English "semi-opera" called King Arthur, expelled the two hours of semi (narration by John Dryden), retained the opera (words by Dryden, music by Henry Purcell) and wound up with about two hours of opera-and-dance numbers that have put off some attendees but exhilarated others. Don't go expecting to follow a plot, because the sooner you let go and appreciate each loosely connected movement on its own merits, the better off you'll be. Do go expecting to hear some beautiful and inventive music and see some fascinating and amusing and entertaining set pieces. And go to tomorrow's matinee or evening performance, because that's all that's left of this run of King Arthur. 'Tis a silly work!



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