PRESENTS
SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT
A SUNDAY AFTERNOON NEWSLETTER
“Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.” —H. W. Longfellow
First Things authors reflect on “work” in its most musical translation: opera. From The Handmaid’s Tale to Nietzsche, the genre transforms and uplifts.
NOVEMBER 2003 ● BY MICHAEL LINTON
THE BIGOT’S OPERA
The operatics of fundamentalism.
DECEMBER 2010 ● BY DAVID P. GOLDMAN
WHY WE CAN’T HEAR WAGNER’S MUSIC
To Wagnerians, Wagner himself is the redeemer—a redeemer who, in turn, needed redemption from his audience.
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