Posts Tagged: The Opera
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'Satyagraha' and Occupy Lincoln Center, Last Night

The biggest opera house in the United States concluded its performance on time last night, at 11:15 p.m. Many of the nearly 4,000 people in attendance at the Met lingered in their seats for a bit, the better to praise the cast, orchestra and conductor—as well as to see if Philip Glass would take a curtain call. A number would have heard that the composer of Satyagraha, an opera about the life (sorta) and philosophical lineage (more consequentially) of Gandhi, was meant to have already spoken, at 10:30 p.m., to the Occupy Lincoln Center group just outside. When Glass did at last appear on stage, he was met with a [...]

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B.O. at the Met: Apparently a Crisis!

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body odor anxiety at the met…last night was the 2nd time in 3 weeks that a character checked his/her pits before a love interest enteredFri Nov 05 18:39:07 via webZachary Woolfezwoolfe

This was the oddest thing I'd seen all day so I thought I would make you know it too.