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A confession: I have never appreciated opera. Pretending to be entranced, I had sat through a performance by Maria Callas at La Scala. That was followed by a number of years in Rome and New York suffering through operas at the Met, both old and new. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This afternoon I watched a 1982 filming of Franco Zeffirelli\u2019s production of Pagliacci. Finally, I got it. I was blow away by Pl\u00e1cido Domingo and Teresa Stratas singing on the Met’s recreation of a church’s very steep stairs. I’d been told that filming opera gave the viewer a sense of the drama. It’s true. <\/p>\n

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