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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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January 2025
And Does She Know that Rome Is Burning?
In which I get ChatGPT to admit that it shouldn't exist.
Jan 27
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Olivia Giovetti
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December 2024
The Batshit Classical Holiday Mixtape
John Brown, Bertolt Brecht, and George Michael
Dec 19, 2024
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Olivia Giovetti
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November 2024
How Should a Critic Be?
Peter Gelb (still) really doesn't like critics.
Nov 20, 2024
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Olivia Giovetti
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