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SANTA BARBARA — At one point in James Joyce’s short story “The Dead,” the talk around the supper table turns to Dublin’s Theater Royal. One character had just seen “Mignon.” “Of course it was very ...

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Operagoers who like to hark back have been kept busy recently, attending revivals of rarely performed works guaranteed to stir up fond memories. A French confection popular at both the Metropolitan ...

MIGNON,” the most recent Metropolitan revival, may be identified as the opera in which the basso is mad and the coloratura soprano remains compos mentis throughout. The fable of the libretto is so ...