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One opera always makes me cry

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One opera always makes me cry

From my monthly essay in The Critic (new issue out today)

… Nothing in opera surpasses that single scenic blow to the seat of emotions. The effect is so visceral that I have seen cellists in the orchestra weep as they play and stagehands wipe their eyes on a sleeve.

Not even the most perverse stage director (we’ll come to them) can disrupt the power of this opera, drawn as it is from the darkest reaches of the soul….

 

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