fancifulness

The Parisian fancifulness of Ministry of Magic, for instance, or utilizing its Monsters brand for a dive into the arcane.

It doesn’t work here, not because of the fancifulness — you are allowed to take liberties in Dreamland — but because of the story and character strains that “Hollywood” visibly goes through to steer to its conclusion.

Electric Dreams, while a wonderfully engaging dip into sci-fi fancifulness, is perhaps too in love with its own big ideas to truly shock us.

The “Wozzeck” was a big success — Zachary Woolfe wrote in The New York Times that “for all its antic fancifulness, this is also the truest, least over-the-top ‘Wozzeck’ I’ve seen” — leaving Mr. Hinterhäuser in the enviable position of provoking arguments in his first season over which of the operas he programmed had been the standout.

But for all its antic fancifulness, this is also the truest, least over-the-top “Wozzeck” I’ve seen.