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It's not an opera with a linear narrative.
Voss has also been adapted into an opera with a David Malouf libretto.
"But to me it's the beginning, it's the prologue of an opera with a cymbal crash, the prologue of 15 to 20 years of Western arrogance".
It would have been hard until recently to imagine a popular song that did not rhyme, just as it would have been hard to imagine an opera with a prose libretto much before Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande (1902).
When asked why, then, the Met did not schedule an opera with a more compatible set, Mr. Gelb said it made sense to bring back "Tosca" because of the investment in rehearsal time.
But quite apart from his all too authentic experience of antisemitism, it is a brilliant choice for an opera, with a plot that traverses two vividly opposed worlds, each suggesting a different type of musical expression.
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Armida is, then, an opera with an anti-war message.
By rights, "La Fanciulla del West" ought to be accepted as readily as "Madama Butterfly" and "Turandot," as an opera with an exotic setting reinforced by dabs of local color, but its Western details keep emerging as cliché-ridden distractions.
Douglas J. Cuomo, for one, takes that stance in "Arjuna's Dilemma," an opera with an appealing and unabashedly eclectic score, based on the Bhagavad-Gita and presented at the Harvey Theater of the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Wednesday night.
Inter's ups and downs this season have at times been more suited to La Scala than the San Siro, but only if someone had the nerve to put on an opera with an all-male cast of ailing and/or fading talents.
Yet the opera's very popularity presents a challenge to performers: How do you bring freshness to an opera with such a legacy of renowned productions and recordings?
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