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The editors and writers for Bloomberg’s Muse arts and culture section chose their favorite moments of 2012. Here they are, led off by Executive Editor Manuela Hoelterhoff:
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Rumor says that a curse clings to Meyerbeer’s supernatural opera “Robert le diable” (Robert the devil, 1831). Looks like it’s more than a rumor.
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Sex with drugs: it’s an audience magnet as old as the hills. Donizetti knew it. “Enron” author Lucy Prebble works it like a charm too.
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Although mezzo Joyce DiDonato swings both ways, operatically speaking, now even she has a juicy new opportunity for gender bending.
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I can’t recall ever hearing anyone, even the craziest opera nut, say: “I am just dying to see ‘Manon’ by Massenet!”
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When a little-known opera is staged as a vehicle for a superstar, that singer had better be worth the ticket. Kansas-born mezzo Joyce DiDonato proves every inch a box-office draw at London’s Royal Opera House.
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If the euro is in crisis, as the pundits keep telling us, you wouldn’t guess it from the Paris spring season. It’s as rich and varied as ever.
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It’s a law of the theater that once an evening starts badly, it never gets better.
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Emmy Rossum, an actress in the Showtime series “Shameless,” who attended the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of “Manon” last night, recalled her own turn on that stage as a kid.
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When the Royal Opera House agreed to coproduce Rossini’s “La Donna del Lago” management hoped for something dazzling. Then Lluis Pasqual’s staging opened in Paris. It was dismal, and it was heading their way.
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