‘Man proposes, but [God] disposes’—or so went the biblical proverb as distilled more or less through various Christian medieval iterations. In this simultaneously sunlit and dark-star doubling of two operas—George Lewis’s and librettist Douglas Kearney’s dark...
 
														
													Opera as Double Fugue:  The Comet / Poppea "Double Consciousness" and historical counterpoint
											
				
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