George Saunders’s "Lincoln in the Bardo" Makes Its Stage Debut - Air Mail

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メトロポリタン歌劇場は、ジョージ・サンダースの小説に基づく新作オペラ『リンカーン・イン・ザ・バルド』（ミシー・マッツォーリ作曲、ロイス・ヴァヴレック台本）を次の月曜日に世界初演する。本作は、死を受け入れられない登場人物たちが真実へと向かう旅路を描く。

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In Tibetan, the word bardo means “gap.” It is also a Buddhist term for the transitional state between death and reincarnation. In the award-winning 2017 novel by George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo, that gap is occupied by characters who neither accept nor acknowledge that they are dead. Instead, they await a “recovery” that will return them to their former lives. This coming Monday, the Metropolitan Opera is presenting the world premiere of Lincoln in the Bardo—music by Missy Mazzoli and libretto by Royce Vavrek. The opera illustrates the journey of its protagonists toward the truth of their deaths. The Lincoln of the title is not Abraham or Mary Todd but their third son, Willie, dead at 11 from typhoid fever and brought to the Oak Hill Cemetery, in Washington, D.C., for entombment. Wil

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