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Zweigvanshchina
Stefan Zweig, Modest Mussorgsky, and the microcosms that mirrored the macrocosms in the Salzburg Easter Festival's Khovanshchina.
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Olivia Giovetti
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Dirtbag Dichterliebe
Happy May, dirtbags.
May 1
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Olivia Giovetti
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April 2025
Casting Out Nines
Mythbusting the Curse of the Ninth, and mythmaking with the Mahlers
Apr 26
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Olivia Giovetti
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Space Oddities
How Joseph Haydn beat Katy Perry into space
Apr 17
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Olivia Giovetti
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Dirtbag Wagner
"more like Blow-engrin"
Apr 1
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Olivia Giovetti
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March 2025
Absolute Music Doesn't Exist
Gabriel Kahane, Frédéric Chopin, Jorge Luis Borges, and Anselm Kiefer's searches for meaning
Mar 25
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Olivia Giovetti
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Two or Three (Other) Things I Know about Aida
How one opera topples several empires.
Mar 18
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Olivia Giovetti
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The New Imperial Spectacle
What Arizona Opera's generative AI concert production of Aida gets right about Verdi's imperial spectacle — and why it's not good.
Mar 11
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Olivia Giovetti
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Dirtbag Puccini
"More like Nessun Whore-ma."
Mar 3
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Olivia Giovetti
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February 2025
What You Like Will Rule a Sentence
Lessons from Ukrainian class and the Lviv National Opera.
Feb 27
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Olivia Giovetti
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Not Like Us
Rereading Kira Thurman's "Singing Like Germans" in an era of queasy prophecy.
Feb 13
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Olivia Giovetti
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Digging in the Crates
Florence Price, Karen Slack, and a few thoughts towards redefining "rediscovered"
Feb 6
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Olivia Giovetti
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