Where the Wild Things Are (opera) The same Minnesota production was given at the New York City Opera in November 1987. New York City Opera revived the opera in April 2011. The cast included Danya Katok as Max, Leslie Davis as Mama/Tzippy, and Lawrence Jones as Wild Thing with Beard, Andrew Sauvageau as Wild Thing with Horns, Adam Cannedy as Rooster Wild Thing, and David Salsbery Fry as Bull Wild Thing. Julian Kuerti conducted and Sean Curran was director. This was the first performance in the opera's history where the Wild Things Are was performed off-book, entirely from memory. The published score notes that "all the
Where the Wild Things Were A.V. Club wrote, "While there's a lot of things I liked in 'Where The Wild Things Were,' I found myself unable to embrace it as much as I wanted to with only three episodes left in the series' run. Part of it is a natural consequence of being a two-parter, but a bigger part is that it introduces an entire new world that there's not enough time to explore." Kathleen Wiedel from "TV Fanatic", gave a 3.2 star rating out of 5, stating: "While this episode wasn't terrible, it really amounted to a whole lot of exposition that should've already