A Philip Glass Opera in Arresting Stop-Motion

Boston Lyric Opera’s arresting stop-motion film of Philip Glass’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” (available starting Jan. 29, at operabox.tv) sets Edgar Allan Poe’s tale of familial strife at a migrant-detention center on the U.S.-Mexico border. The Usher home and the government facility are both monuments to the misery of their inhabitants. As Glass’s gradually intensifying music plays, a Guatemalan girl who has been separated from her mother dreams up a doll-like world populated by Poe’s star-crossed characters.