Reality Checks: Voodoo, LSD, Nancy and Tonya, THE OPERAS!

Elizabeth — June 25, 2015

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A grad student found a lost opera in the library, and the Harlem Opera will be performing Harry Lawrence Freeman’s Voodoo for the first time since 1928. (via NPR)
Anne Lebaron is in the process of writing an opera on the history of LSD. Bach wrote a cantata about coffee which is really about sex, so why not? (via Vice)
Figure skating’s Tonya Harding vs Nancy Kerrigan rivalry has become a rock opera (via The Telegraph)

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Elizabeth is a professional belly dancer, a flaky computer scientist, and a returned Peace Corps volunteer. She lives in Georgia (the state of the U.S., not the country) but is nonetheless somehow not a combination of stereotypes from Gone with the Wind and Deliverance. Her personal blog is Coffeefied. Operafied. Fluffified. Beglittered.

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