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...Perhaps most remarkable is the way Braunschweig’s staging mirrors the circularity of the score, so that at the end it is only the unmade state of the guest bed that marks the passing of events....
...Given that deep emotional engagement is opera’s stock in trade, does this mark some kind of failure on Adès’s part to draw listeners into the surreal and darkly claustrophobic psychological world of the...
...A similar clarity – short on sentimentality but long on emotion – marks Konwitschny’s direction, which uses Timo Dentler’s simple set and Okarina Peter’s bold costumes to project the drama with unflinching...
...In 1944, John Cage found himself in the fashionable Willard Gallery on New York’s Upper East Side, staring at a painting by Mark Tobey....
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