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British composer known for his song cycles, such as Les Illuminations (1939), and operas, including Peter Grimes (1945) and Death in Venice (1973).
This aspect of language should not be construed solely as a demonstration of knowledge (as in knowing how many symphonies Beethoven wrote, whether Caruso was a tenor or a bass, or being able to hum melodies from Puccini's operas), though that is certainly a reflex of a cultured individual.
If a work is "about" "abandon, irrationality, and ecstatic release," but its execution displays "measure, reason, and control" --one might place any number of baroque operas in this category, for instance, or Nathaniel Hawthorne, for that matter.
It is not Bartoli's voice but the operas themselves that are too small for houses like the Met--or rather, the Met is too big for all but the grandest of grand opera.
(Tidbits: Thurgood Marshall spent his days watching soap operas; Justices O'Connor and Kennedy are known as intellectual midgets.)
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