The Met gave a dark opera a happy ending. What’s that say about America?

People who care about opera can’t stop talking about the baby, or “that damned baby” as a disgruntled patron put it on the way out of the Metropolitan Opera last week. It’s a directorial conceit in a lavish new production of Richard Wagner’s opera “Tristan und Isolde,” one of the most revolutionary...

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