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: Althouse

"It is brash, coarse, menacing, ugly ? deliberately so."

By Ann Althouse

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"This is not to say there aren't moments of beauty; but these are moments, fleeting. And when the opera is comic, as it often is, it is frightening-comic ? not pleasant-comic."

That would be Prokofiev's opera version of the Dostoevsky story "The Gambler," which we saw at The Metropolitan Opera tonight. Frightening-comic ? not pleasant-comic... Isn't that what you want in your opera?

Full post as published by Althouse on April 01, 2008 (boomark / email).

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