Bastille Day Edition: While Awaiting Slow Birth Of Washington National Opera, Pan Cogito Checks Out New Post-Bastille Operas In Birmingham And Paris

Rufus Wainwright "Prima Donna" (in the Canadian-American-British corner)

Anselm Kiefer's and Jörg Widmann's “Am Anfang” (“In the Beginning”) (in the Continental Old European corner)

FREE Bastille matinee today of "Am Anfang" at the Paris Opera at 4 PM !!!

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Photo credits: (c) Clive Barda via the New York Times 2009. Copyright controlled; and (c) Charles Duprat for the Opéra national de Paris 2009. Copyright controlled.