For one thing, it's small: a chamber opera with an orchestra of only 13 instruments.
That does a disservice to more than 300 years of earlier chamber operas.
Whether it is an effective chamber opera is another question.
As his final assignment he composed a chamber opera called Paradise.
The works are staged as chamber operas, sung in English.
It is a fairy tale, a puppet play and a chamber opera.
This year's festival has offered two recent chamber operas.
It is a dramatically vivid and musically effective chamber opera on its own terms.
There is also plenty of chamber opera, once plentiful at Columbia but absent in recent decades.
If only the weather could be as amenable as a chamber opera.