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What a week its been! A Met broadcast of L’italiana in Algeri stoked the ongoing blaze of comments on Parterre about political correctness in opera, and a man who not long ago came within striking distance of being the next American president essentially justified sexual assault as noblesse oblige. Its time for some diversion, a good old-fashioned guilty pleasure: Adriana Lecouvreur with the 1970s dream cast of Montserrat Caballé, José Carreras, and Fiorenza Cossotto.
Parterre Box concludes the thrilling first year of Talk of the Town by inviting your lightning rod opinions on several more categories of operatic argumentation.
Parterre Box concludes the thrilling first year of Talk of the Town by inviting your lightning rod opinions on several more categories of operatic argumentation.