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The (Many) Loves of Enrico Caruso
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Casanova and Da Ponte: The Lives and Afterlives of "Don Giovanni"
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The Medici: Sex, Power, and the Birth of Opera
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How Should a Critic Be?
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The Puzzle of Puccini
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Revisionist History: Bernstein at the Berlin Wall
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Always Have Been. Always Will Be.
Election Day with Nabucco and Ulrich Mühe
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Selective Interest
Narrative and cultural gaps, and butterflies from New York to Nagasaki
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From Lviv
Old sounds, new contexts
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End of the Line
The multifarious finales to Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina
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The Great Experiment
On Claus Guth's “Khovanshchina” at the Berlin Staatsoper
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A Foot in Both Worlds
Remarks from last month's Make Freedom Ring concert in Berlin
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Of Sound Mind and Body
Beethoven and Spalding Gray's searches for meaning
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Within and Without
Making art to go beyond what we're otherwise able to express.
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The Unquestioned Answers
When Wisława Szymborska reviewed the Three Tenors
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