The symphony and the stage.
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Opera heard from only a few feet away carries a particular enchantment. In a great house, sound travels through height and spectacle; a small theater reveals the pulse beneath the polish. One catches the intake of breath, the shaping of…
Opera is born disappearing. Breath leaves the body, trembles through the room, enters hundreds of strangers, and is gone. The vibration remains somewhere beneath the sternum, yet the sound itself cannot be held. This is the form’s great seduction and…
“Donald is in my bones,” Barbara said, recalling the hours they spent discussing who they were and why they had chosen one another. “When you lose someone, hug them spiritually and keep them all around you as much as you…