| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - But it only occasionally rises above the sort of music that opera composers deploy to work their way through text, functional music that gets the storytelling done.Operas such as The First Emperor represent a kind of sidestep, an effort to reappropriate the beloved but shopworn forms of the 19th century, fuse them to something new and exotic and present them as compromise art.Audiences will like
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