opera

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  5/30/2022
  

  Malcolm X Returns to the Opera Stage

  Anthony Davis's 1985 opera "X" was slow to catch on in the American repertory, a fact that would have been no surprise to its subject. 

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• SOURCE: The Daily Beast
  12-17-14
  

  The My Lai Massacre Inspires an Opera

  One of the most horrific episodes of the Vietnam War is being made into a government-funded opera.

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• 11-21-14
  

  The Opera that Joe Stalin Hated Is Back

  by Bruce Chadwick

  It is not good when Joe Stalin is angry at you.

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• SOURCE: The Daily Beast
  10-20-14
  

  Large Crowd Protests NYC Terrorism Opera

  A famed opera that depicts the real-life murder of an American Jew by Palestinians has enraged hundreds Manhattan’s West Side.

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• SOURCE: New York Review of Books
  9-24-13
  

  Verdi vs. the Fanatics

  by Garry Wills

  An opera review.

• SOURCE: Guardian (UK)
  5-9-13
  

  German Nazi-themed opera cancelled after deluge of complaints

  A controversial Nazi-themed production of Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser has been cancelled after it caused some audience members to seek medical help and prompted others to walk out in anger.The Rheinoper in Düsseldorf said it was in a state of shock after being deluged with complaints by members of the public who called the opera tasteless and unnecessarily provocative.The production, which opened last Saturday and was expected to be one of the highlights of the celebrations for the bicentenary of Wagner's birth later this month, has a Nazi storyline, and includes scenes of people dying in gas chambers, being shot and raped, and of members of a family having their heads shaved before their execution....