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  • grimoaldo: Wrong! I just posted the opening of Act Two again - whole opera, I hope, this time: httpv://www.you... 2:32 PM
  • grimoaldo: And she had just done the whole Act One as Venus before she came out and ran all over the stage like... 2:31 PM
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The singing dead

“Somehow with opera, just as with theatre, it turns out that the monster’s head still hasn’t been cut off. Or else, like any monster worthy of the name, it keeps finding ways to rise from the grave.” Occasional friend of the box Joseph Cermatori offers an obituary of sorts for opera in New York in 2011-2012 in PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art.