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    HEARING Voices

    Sep 01, 2020 3 minutes
    WRITTEN BY Mark Campbell
    PHOTOGRAPHY BY
    Hickey-Robertson

    s a librettist, I initially thought the idea of setting an opera in the Rothko Chapel was preposterous. The much-hallowed landmark in Houston, considered by many to be one of the greatest achievements in mid-20th-century art, doubles as a gallery exhibiting Mark Rothko’s paintings and as a sanctuary of quiet and contemplation. It is where the merest whisper can incur the most censorious sneers from fellow visitors. Setting an opera in the chapel seemed almost antithetical to an art

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