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On Wednesday, at the third performance of the production, directed by Bartlett Sher, it was clear that Mr. Muhly, at 29, writing his first full-length opera, has done just that: been inside and outside, both an active participant in our culture and a detached observer of it.

To Mr. Sher it was evident that his star, "one of the healthiest people I've ever met," spent many sleepless nights puzzling over the role in the luxe but anonymous apartment the theater had found for him a few blocks from Lincoln Center.

John Rawls has made one of the most widely discussed arguments to this effect (Rawls 1971), and while the strong form of this argument has been clearly refuted (Zaitchik, Sher), it remains a problem for desert-based principles.

Whereas Offenbach, born a German Jew, faced rejection when he thought he had finally been accepted as a Frenchman, whenever Hoffmann begins a relationship, Mr. Sher said, "it evaporates".

Mr. Sher said it would cost such a singer a million euros to take the role.

Mr. Sher finds it even more fascinating that none of the opera's heroines are actually interested in Hoffmann.

This "South Pacific" is not transcendent, like the one mounted by Lincoln Center in 2008 and directed by Bartlett Sher, but it is a stellar achievement.

How else could you play a man who has, as Mr. Sher put it, no "processing bridge" between his beliefs and his actions?

The Rodgers and Hammerstein estates didn't allow it to be done until they knew Bartlett Sher was doing it, because they knew his work and trusted him.

"Let's think about it," Sher said agreeably, but clearly that was the only miracle allotted that day.

The musical, which features a book by Jeffrey Lane and music and lyrics by David Yazbek, is being directed by Bartlett Sher ("South Pacific"); it will begin previews at the Belasco Theater on Oct. 2.