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Dispatches From
the Napoleonic Wars
at the Met

BY

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Here we follow the trials and tribulations of a mild-mannered New Jersey man who has bravely decided to be an extra in the Metropolitan Opera’s production of Prokofiev’s adaptation of Tolstoy’s War and Peace.

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Dispatch 12: A Farewell to Arms (and a Secret Love Revealed) (1/26/2009)

Dispatch 11: Spies Everywhere (12/1/2008)

Dispatch 10: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (10/20/2008)

Dispatch 9: Half as Long as War and Peace and Only Twice as Funny (or Vice Versa) (8/22/2008)

Dispatch 8: Metropolitan Opera Highlights … My Mediocrity (7/15/2008)

Dispatch 7: Painful Adolescent Angst (6/13/2008)

Dispatch 6: Dress Me Up, Dress Me Down (5/9/2008)

Dispatch 5: I Surrender Like My Name Is Pierre (3/31/2008)

Dispatch 4: I Hope My Legs Don’t Break, Walking on the Moon (2/29/2008)

Dispatch 3: The Troops Face the Music (2/8/2008)

Dispatch 2: Dissension in the Ranks (1/14/2008)

Dispatch 1: New Jersey Man Marching for Holy Mother Russia (12/4/2007)

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