Category: Opera
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Lohengrin and the Grace of Disappearance
De Animalibus, illustration by author, 2026 There are periods in history which later generations are fast to call dark or stagnated, not because nothing of significant occurred within them, but because what occurred resisted immediate visibility. ‘A foggy period’ one may call; something which is often mistaken for emptiness. Yet in nature, fog gathers only…
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Peter Grimes — On Being Seen from the Shore
Wanderer above The Sea of Fog, Caspar David Friedrich, 1818 There is a kind of solitude that does not come from absence, but from distance. One that is not forgotten nor hidden, yet clearly placed beyond the horizon. Seen to clearly, but never fully recognised. Like a solitary figure on top of a hill surrounded…
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La Chatte Métamorphosée en Femme: A Modern Reading
La Chatte Métamorphosée en Femme
Shima Trisna 