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Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Politics at the very center of opera

Over and over, these works present fictionalized people in real historical contexts, trapped in the machinery of actual geopolitics. This naturalism was new and shocking.
It still is.
--Michael Friedman
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Grand Opera’s War with Itself
by Michael Friedman, The Paris Review, October 28, 2014

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