Little's 'Soldier Songs' at Atlas offers strong music, Morrison film, but emotional cliche

In her autobiography, soprano Galina Vishnevskaya told of falling in love with a recording of the opera "Eugene Onegin," only to be bitterly disappointed the first time she saw it onstage. Many opera lovers, I think, can relate: Works that seemed plausible on repeated hearings turn out to be almost impossible to realize convincingly ("La forza del destino," I'm looking at you). I had a similar sensation on Saturday night at the Atlas Performing Arts Center when I saw David T. Little's "Soldier S...