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opera

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universe

is a killing chamber, which speeds up the time it claims to be conserving. like coffins exhumed and pried open, the photographs put on show what we were and what we will be again.

is not a sedate marriage between text and music, but the proposal of a relationship of unremitting, invigorating tension.

Peter Conrad (1997: 113) regards music as being the 'enemy of words, drowning their sense in lyrical sound'. However, he finds the genius of opera as lying precisely 'in its potentiality for an enriching contradiction between its elements. Rather than a sedate marriage between text and music, it proposes a relationship of unremitting, invigorating tension (177). The genre of opera is the attempt successfully to combine these two conflicting elements which, in spite of their fusion, still retain their unique features: they are, as Conrad expresses it, 'united by antagonisms. Opera is the combination of their warfare by other means (113)'

is a wind-tunnel, through which loud projectiles hurl themselves, intent on their own cosmic errands.

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Peter Conrad