Long Beach Opera raises life’s questions, loudly, in Stewart Copeland’s ‘Invention of Morel’

The new Stewart Copeland-Jonathan Moore opera “The Invention of Morel” from the mavericks at Long Beach Opera comes with a boatload of issues to ponder. Here are just a few: Is unrequited love worth dying for? Does science know what’s good for us? Is eternal life desirable?

The opera’s characters…