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temporary norms, or it may be a harbinger of the future of “portable” spectacle,
opera for a new post-digital public. In its linkage of the mechanistic and the real,
Robert Wilson and Philip Glass have devised an entirely new sort of work, yet one
which certainly has links to La Scala and the Met. As we cross into the next
century, it will be fascinating to see how this new hybridized medium continues to
evolve.
University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Wheeler Winston Dixon

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