In this week’s show, John talks to opera director Yuval Sharon about the past and perhaps future rebirths of opera, while advocating for the relevance of this provocative art form. Yuval’s new book, A New Philosophy of Opera, is lucid, persuasive, passionate, and fun.

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Miami Book Fair will take place November 22-24.

On December 3rd, The Drunken Odyssey’s writers take over the reading spots in the Loose Lips reading series here in Orlando, the city beautiful. 8 PM at Dirty Laundry, which is the back patio of Li’l Indies: 1036 N Mills Ave, Orlando, FL, United States, Florida.

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