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Next week at The Morgan Library and Museum, New York City Opera General Manager-Designate Gerard Mortier will discuss his vision of opera. The lecture, entitled “The Excitement of 20th-Century Opera,” will focus on classic works composed by Claude Debussy, Leos Janácek, Olivier Messiaen, Karol Szymanowski, Mieczyslaw Weinberg, and others. Tickets for the program, scheduled for Friday, November 7 at 6:30 pm, are $20 and $25. More details may be found here.

UPDATE: A new production of Janacek’s The Cunning Little Vixen has just opened at the Opéra Bastille; according to the program it’s a co-production with the NYCO. Says reviewer George Loomis in the International Herald Tribune, “Happily, André Engel’s staging will warm the hearts of even those most wary of the radical production style linked to Mortier.”

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