Esther

...Dreyfus case inflamed France that Proust found his true compass, (By my casual count there are eleven references to the biblical Queen Esther in La Recherche, and her marriage to King Ahasuerus has got to be one of the most successful mixed...

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...paid his mistress hush money while campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination on a social justice platform.) Queen Esther If Palin is indeed a cancer on the GOP, why can't the Republican establishment retire her to a quiet...

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...at the right time. One other early-'90s opera that offers the most interesting comparison to Esther is John Adams' Death of Klinghoffer. Like Esther, Klinghoffer is an opera about Jews. It tells the story of the 1984 hijacking of the ocean...

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...and simply, with "Take Care of This House" from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Matters improved dramatically on Saturday with Hugo Weisgall's Esther, not seen anywhere since its premiere in 1993. This is a grand, grand opera, a quasi-biblical...

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...Opera launched its comeback from perilous times Saturday night by reviving an atonal opera that it premiered in 1993 - Hugo Weisgall's Esther. The work, based on the biblical story of the Jewish queen of Persia who saved her people from...

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...2, 2009 photo released by the New York City Opera, Stephen Kechulius is Xerxes and Lauren Flanigan is Esther during a dress rehearsal of "Esther," at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center in New York. - NYC Opera, Carol Rosegg /AP...

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...Saturday night by reviving an atonal opera that it premiered back in 1993 - Hugo Weisgall's "Esther." A bold move, but far from a foolhardy one. "Esther," based on the biblical story of the Jewish queen of Persia who saved her people from...

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...is impressed by how much has been packed into this mini-season. "And it makes a big statement to me that he's starting with Esther, this Hugo Weisgall opera - a thorny, fascinating, dramatically compelling opera," he says. There's...

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...such as a burning bush," Reichelson said. His Abraham is one of nearly a dozen costumed biblical characters, including Queen Esther, Bathsheba and Noah, who are set to mingle at the Community Jewish Festival on Oct. 25 at Temple...

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...one who inspired you to change your major from poli-sci to music. The first production of the new season, opening Nov. 5, is Hugo Weisgall's Esther, a formidably atonal work that had a well-received world premiere at City Opera in 1993.

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