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Matthew Aucoin’s Crossing depicts Walt Whitman’s experience serving wounded soldiers in a DC infirmary and chronicles the period’s tragic effects.
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Published in 1975, James McCourt’s novel Mawrdew Czgowchwz is engaged with a longing for the divine.
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What the hell is Three Way doing on a list of 7 American Operas That Put LGBTQ Issues Center Stage?
I am, perhaps instinctively, skeptical of those who commit suicide.
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Much like Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, which launched the Met’s 2016-2017 season, Kaija Saariaho’s L’Amour de Loin is an opera about love and death.
The centerpiece of Janácek’s Jenufa was the performance of Karita Mattila as the murderous Kostelnicka.
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The opera Patience and Sarah is a fantastic example of radical creativity.
Cincinnati Opera presented the world premiere Fellow Travelers Friday and I’m here to tell you that not only does the opera have legs, it has balls.
I have always wanted to see a production of Strauss’ Elektra that made my ears bleed.
What is an Orphic moment? A song so sweet that even Hades must release the dead back to the living?
An astute double-feature exposes all the complexities of female suffering embedded within two canonical works.
On this day in 1993, the first issue of parterre box, the queer opera zine was published.
The winds of change sweep across the first post-9/11 issue of parterre box, the queer opera zine.
In issue #46 of parterre box the queer opera zine (“Spunk”), you will find an endorsement by the legendary Astrid Varnay.
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