Word: lessonã
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There was no introductory lesson??not even a five-minute demonstration on how to make the hunk of metal stop and go. The only words of wisdom shared by my dear driving instructor were that if he at any point yelled, “Hands off!” I had to remove my hands from the wheel and let him take control. Those instructions were somehow less than reassuring...
...Zauberflöte’s idealistic vision more powerful. This opera is, after all, a fairy tale—albeit a bizarre one full of Masonic rituals and Egyptian gods. And like all fairy tales, Die Zauberflöte seeks to teach us a moral. Its particular lesson??the transformative power of brotherhood and love—would lose much of its force if we forgot, even for a minute, that what we are watching is markedly not the world in which we live. Fortunately, the Met’s production didn’t allow this...