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An opera primer: Glimmerglass regular explains the basics of the genre

An opera primer: Glimmerglass regular explains the basics of the genre By ROBERT MOYNIHAN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com First, opera is supposed to be quite serious. One writer of praise for Verdi’s “Trovatore” observed, totally without irony: “When the soprano part is sung as Madam X sings it, one cannot survive without tears.” As for the composer himself: “He made a nest for singers in his music like the mother-bird warming her young.” Such comments have as much relation to…
July 15, 2021
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MOYNIHAN: To Explain COVID-19, It’s Back To The Future

LETTER from ROBERT MOYNIHAN To Explain COVID-19, It’s Back To The Future To the Editor There should be no more name-calling or evasions from one who lost the popular vote in 2016 by three million votes and in 2020 by seven million. His policy: “The Covid will just go away” – complete with a presidential hand signifying bird flight. Instead, national policy is now to be founded on observation and science instead of theories from pre-germ mythologies. Intelligent action instead…
February 11, 2021

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