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Operatic righteous anger or self-indulgence? Philip Glass' Appomattox Take 2

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Reviewed at Kennedy Center: Opera House, Washington on 14 November 2015
Glass, Appomattox (World Premiere of Revised Version)
Washington National Opera
Dennis Russell Davies, Conductor
Tazewell Thompson, Director
Donald Eastman, Set Designer
Merrily Murray-Walsh, Costume Designer
David Pittsinger, General Robert E. Lee, Edgar Ray Killen
Richard Paul Fink, General Ulysses S. Grant
Tom Fox, Abraham Lincoln, Lyndon B. Johnson
Melody Moore, Julia Dent Grant
Robert Brubaker, Wilmer McLean
Anne-Carolyn Bird, Mary Todd Lincoln
Robert Baker, Edward Alexander
Aleksey Bogdanov, John Rawlins
Soloman Howard, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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