Alex Ross: Shock tactics at the opera. by Alex Ross

This year, opera on the East Coast has taken a turn toward the lurid, the sordid, the subversive, and the cryptic—in short, toward theatrical values that are more commonly found on European stages than on American ones, where patrons still expect Tosca in a tiara. The Met mounted . . . (Subscription required.)

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