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Thar She Sings: Making an Opera out of Moby-Dick

November 05, 2012

I'm no expert on opera. But after seeing the San Francisco Opera production of Moby-Dick, I was struck by the ways in which an opera is really a lot like a "classic" novel. It's long. It’s epic. Read More

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