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A Baroque Opera Written By a Female Composer Feels Ripped From the Headlines
The Paris Opera production of “Ercole Amante” (“Hercules in Love”), a rediscovered 1707 work by the female composer Antonia Bembo, leans into contemporary themes of coercion and consent.
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