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As a female director working in the post (!)  “me-too” era, I am often called upon to find the feminist perspective in operatic works that seem to have no historical basis for such an understanding. Nonetheless, great ma...

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Ariadne auf Naxos is at once a chaotic, raucous comedy celebrating our most mundane, profane impulses, and also a meditative contemplation of humanity’s highest calling: eternal Love, and its expression through our great...

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“I can do nothing but think of you and gaze constantly at your dear letter and portrait. What you have done to me? Can’t you remove the spell you have cast over me?”

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Perhaps the most famous section of the opera Fidelio is the Prisoners' Chorus, “O welche Lust,” which begins with an ecstatic appreciation of the beauty of a single breath of fresh air. The fact that Beethoven gave the m...

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I’ve worked on Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci several times over the course of my career, and each time I am freshly amazed at its startling emotional quality and modern perspective. From the Prologue, Tonio steps in front of t...

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Le Nozze di Figaro contains multitudes: a scathing commentary on failing social hierarchies, a farcical comedy of mistaken identity and slamming doors, an absolute love letter to LOVE at all stages of life, it is, above ...

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There is a particular kind of American hunger… restless, outsized, dressed up in borrowed righteousness…that is almost perfectly captured in Sinclair Lewis’s novel of 1927: Elmer Gantry. A man of tremendous appetite but...

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