Quotable:
[Opera is] one of those giant whale corpses that the government drops in the water so fishes have a home. But this rotting corpse can have a whole ecosystem surrounding it.
Composer Nico Muhly, answering a question on "what opera is and where it fits into modern music," posed by Alex Ross during the New Yorker Festival's "Radical Opera" panel.
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Photo: Under construction, the enormous death mask of Richard Wagner that served as part of the set for Hans Jürgen Syberberg's film of Parsifal, via Dasein Design.
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