Washington National Opera and the National Symphony just announced next season’s plans under new management.
WNO is putting on Robert Ward’s opera of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, a reconfoguration of the 1650s Salem witch-hunt as an allegory of contemporary McCarthyism. That shsould entertain the present regime.
Also on the bill: West Side Story, Marriage of Figaro, Aida and Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha.
The NSO has Shostakovich 8th, a Stalin-era work of arts-politics coexistence.
The arts aren’t dead yet.
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