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I talk about opera with Russ Roberts (Russ Roberts), one of the most beloved and distrusted art forms. If you love opera (or are opera-curious) you may enjoy this conversation.

When talent, culture, history, and marketplace move together you get... Italian opera. Russ Roberts (@EconTalk) and I spoke about the misunderstood art form of opera on his podcast. I recommend it to any opera lovers.

Historical outliers produce the bulk of our cultural masterpieces. Just 7 creative teams made most of history's greatest operas. The right team can achieve astonishing things. Even when they don't like each other.

Kansas City is preparing a performance of my new opera "Maya and the Magic Ring".

My orchestral song cycle, "Planting a Sequoia" with music by Lori Laitman will be performed at Yale on March 8 conducted by James Sinclair. Here is a short conversation with the composer. vimeo.com/1054822487

My orchestral song cycle, "Planting a Sequoia" with music by Lori Laitman will be performed by Orchestra New England, conducted by James Sinclair at Yale's Battell Chapel.

I did a very long interview with David Perell where I go much deeper into the writing process (inspiration, revision, temperament) than I ever have before in other podcasts. youtube.com/watch?v=XvfLmb…

Beauty is a topic I've thought about a lot over the last 40 years.

Suffering Leads to Strange Moments of Intimacy "My experience of daily life, almost always in the country, but even in the city, is metaphysical. Which is to say, I experience two worlds at once. I experience the world in front of me, of the immediate senses, but I almost

I have a new one-act children's opera, Maya and the Magic Ring, premiering at Kansas City Lyric Opera in late March. The music by Lori Laitman is appropriately magical. youtube.com/watch?v=FvaJ0v…

I was fascinated by Zina Gomez-Liss's Substack on how she became a poet and amused to see she discovered my work when her professor denounced me in class. zinagomezliss.substack.com/p/how-to-kill-…

“I believe in a conservativism that is anchored in the best of tradition, not just politically or economically, but artistically and culturally.” Dana Gioia speaks with our editor Daniel McCarthy (VIDEO): modernagejournal.com/dana-gioia-int…