The near-accidental eloquence of The Mile-Long Opera by David Lang

I thought I knew what opera is. Well, the definition didn’t change. But The Mile-Long Opera, performed last week on New York’s High Line, changed the boundaries of opera, theater and artistic expression, and in ways that I couldn’t have imagined before taking the elevator up three floors and then trudging from 14th to 34th Street.

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