American opera needs 'The Comet / Poppea.' Yuval Sharon's experimental dialogue with history is exceptional in every way
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Yuval Sharon's 'The Comet / Poppea' is as an experimental dialogue with history in a way that only opera, with its capacity to worm its way inside the minds of characters, might attempt.