Dr. Basil Kongwah Considine (GRS’13, STH’06) Reviews New Opera
The following is an except from from The Boston Musical Intelligencer article “Adoration, Myths, and Reality” by Dr.Basil Kongwah Considine (GRS’13, STH’06), published on January 14, 2024. 
Prejudice, love, collective judgment, and the uncertainty of truth. These are some of the major threads woven into Adoration, a new opera by Mary Kouyoumdjian and Royce Vavrek that premiered at New York City’s PROTOTYPE Festival last night. The marriage of music, text, sonic effects, and video reframing pushes audiences to question what is real, what is deceit, and what glimmers of truth we can glean from the world – or think that we have gleaned…
Whatever its aesthetics, Adoration delves deeply into several threads that are sure to have audiences talking afterwards – the secrets that we carry, the myths that we (re)write, and the instinctive and collective reactions that we both embrace and deny. That’s not a bad combo to ponder amongst friends and strangers, suffused by gorgeous music.