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washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Style - Oct 18, 2008
Opera can depict the end of the world: We've known that since Wagner's "Götterdämmerung." But the close of John Adams and Peter Sellars's "Doctor Atomic," rather than merely ending a world onstage, creates a space …
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washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Style - Sep 6, 2008
In the ongoing quest to broaden opera's appeal, contemporary opera is one arrow in a sparely filled quiver. New operas are based on world events, current movies, popular books. Their music is written by funky living …
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washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Technology - Aug 1, 2008
Of all European summer music festivals, the Bayreuth Festival may be the hardest ticket. Devoted to the operas of Richard Wagner, presented in the theater that he built, it receives so many requests for its two-month …
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washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Style - May 19, 2008
"El Niño," John Adams's oratorio about the Nativity, aspires to be a masterpiece, and it more or less succeeds.
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