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Cher Public

  • Quanto Painy Fakor: Holly Cats! httpv://www.youtub e.com/watch?v=d63j KihoYRg 1:15 PM
  • Batty Masetto: To celebrate Wagner’s birthday we finally got around to watching the Glyndebourne Meistersinger,... 12:37 PM
  • kashania: Marshie: That Böhm Bayreuth Walküre also features the best of Leonie’s screams. 11:56 AM
  • papopera: oH YES, wonderful great composer, rarely performed due to ignorance. 11:24 AM
  • MontyNostry: I thought there was some special French reference I wasn’t getting. 11:12 AM
  • MontyNostry: Oh, U and non-U … I remember reading about that at school. Didn’t get all of it at the... 11:11 AM
  • kashania: La Cieca’s bringing out all the big guns. First we had the legendary Macbeth broadcast last week... 11:09 AM
  • oedipe: Masse-Ney? 11:06 AM

Schrödinger’s cat fancy

“So is opera as vibrant as ever, or is it hanging on by a thread? How to write the history of an art form that hovers, Schrödinger’s catlike, simultaneously alive and dead?” As we awaken from our holiday nap, what better reading to curl up with than a review by Zachary Woolfe (not pictured) of the new study A History of Opera?