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COPYRIGHT 2005 Metropolitan Opera Guild, Inc.
Scott Wheeler's Democracy: An American Comedy manages to achieve an effect something like that of so-called "CNN-operas," in this case confronting audiences with characters, stories and issues plucked not from current headlines but from the past--specifically 1875, in Washington, D.C., during Ulysses S. Grant's scandal tarred presidential administration. The new work, commissioned by Washington National Opera for the company's Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program and given an extraordinarily committed, stylish premiere by WNO on January 28 at George Washington University's Lisner Auditorium, has a libretto by...
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