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Friday, January 31, 2014

Opera review: Pittsburgh Opera's approach gives 'Dark Sisters' added punch

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: The ending of Nico Muhly's "Dark Sisters" taps you on the shoulder before it punches you in the gut.
The main character Eliza -- one of the opera's five sister-wives who belong to a polygamist sect -- is about to depart from her family's compound in the American Southwest. "Only lonely me," she sings, as she prepares to leave the familiar realm she inhabits for the unknown world beyond, following the instinct that the latter must, somehow, be better.

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