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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Mike Silverman

'Lincoln in the Bardo' leaps from book to stage in Missy Mazzoli's new opera

Opera-Lincoln in the Bardo - (Karen Almond/MetOpera)

The setting is a graveyard. Almost all the characters are dead. And then there’s Abraham Lincoln, alive but paralyzed by grief over the death of his 11-year-old son.

If that capsule description makes “Lincoln in the Bardo” sound like a grim night at the opera, it’s actually far from that, according to its creators.

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