![]() ![]() The Australia-born, Iceland-based Frost is popularly known for his electro-acoustic hybrids of classical music and heavy metal. With justified ferocity, they chew and spit Frank’s infernal confession, and Frost’s music, played by the Reykjavík Sinfonia, coldly stokes the flames. Not merely aspects of Frank’s psyche, they’re like the Furies, bearers of divine retribution. ![]() On this newly-released Bedroom Community recording-the opera premiered in 2013-they are sung with wicked charisma by Lieselot De Wilde, Jördis Richter, and Mariam Wallentin. Then he assigned the three roles to powerful women, entirely omitting Frank as a character. ![]() Frost solved both problems in one stroke by asking Pountney to split Frank’s phantasmagoric monologue into a trialogue. ![]()
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