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Hilton Als Staff writer The ever-astonishing eighty-one-year-old vocalist, composer, theatre-maker, and performer Meredith Monk comes from a family of voices—four generations of singers—or one voice. Her mother was a talented commercial singer on the radio, but Monk chose a different way to make sound. As a student at Sarah Lawrence, in the nineteen-sixties, Monk, who sang, too, began making work that was sound-based.
—Sheldon Pearce Opera War and romance have long been central characters in opera, whether they stand stately at the forefront of the plot or churn not so silently in the background. Opening week of the Met Opera’s new season features both sides of the enduring dichotomy, with “Grounded” and “Les Contes d’Hoffmann.” The former follows a fighter pilot navigating an unplanned pregnancy, and the latter a fictionalized E. T. A. Hoffmann living out love-filled plots based on his own short stories.
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