Caricature
Caricature is a type of iconography that involves distorting the features of recognizable people to exaggerate some aspect of their demeanor. Opinions differ regarding the term’s applicability to...
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Increasingly, young opera singers from all over the world are moving to Germany, drawn by the prospect of steady work—even full-time employment. In 2013 Germany saw 7230 opera performances, one-third...
View ArticleMark Twain on opera
Mark Twain’s reactions to grand opera are epitomized by a passage from A tramp abroad in which he described a performance of Wagner’s Lohengrin. “The banging and slamming and booming and crashing...
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