Why was there never an opera that ended with a soprano who was free?


“Why is history uncontested here? There is no sight of that dispute over words, that battle over versions of stories that marks the creative inner life of a society. Where are the contradictory voices?”
― Every Day Is for the Thief
― Every Day Is for the Thief

“He was an abomination precisely because they saw his humanity, but degraded it and would not recognize it.”
― The Mammoth Hunters
― The Mammoth Hunters

“But the past continues to gather around like floodwater. A too easy formulation, but what past do I have in mind? The nation’s, I think. But perhaps I am also thinking of mine, perhaps the two are connected, the way a small segment of a coastline is formed with the same logic that makes the shape of the continental shelf.”
― Every Day Is for the Thief
― Every Day Is for the Thief

“There are many lives and many years, and relatively few moments when those individual histories touch each other with real recognition.”
― Every Day Is for the Thief
― Every Day Is for the Thief

“I look at his hands. In those hands is new knowledge.”
― Every Day Is for the Thief
― Every Day Is for the Thief

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