ONE SMALL BLOW AGAINST ENCROACHING TOTALITARIANISM
“I love us, in our madness, but we all need our own private unraveling and recentering daily if we’re going to survive this phase of America.” —
Harmony Holiday
Dispatches From
the Napoleonic Wars
at the Met
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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January 26, 2009Dispatches From the Napoleonic Wars at the Met: Dispatch 12: A Farewell to Arms (and a Secret Love Revealed)
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December 1, 2008Dispatches From the Napoleonic Wars at the Met: Dispatch 11: Spies Everywhere
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October 20, 2008Dispatches From the Napoleonic Wars at the Met: Dispatch 10: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
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August 22, 2008Dispatches From the Napoleonic Wars at the Met: Dispatch 9: Half as Long as War and Peace and Only Twice as Funny (or Vice Versa)
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July 15, 2008Dispatches From the Napoleonic Wars at the Met: Dispatch 8: Metropolitan Opera Highlights … My Mediocrity
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June 13, 2008Dispatches From the Napoleonic Wars at the Met: Dispatch 7: Painful Adolescent Angst
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May 9, 2008Dispatches From the Napoleonic Wars at the Met: Dispatch 6: Dress Me Up, Dress Me Down
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March 31, 2008Dispatches From the Napoleonic Wars at the Met: Dispatch 5: I Surrender Like My Name Is Pierre
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February 29, 2008Dispatches From the Napoleonic Wars at the Met: Dispatch 4: I Hope My Legs Don’t Break, Walking on the Moon
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February 8, 2008Dispatches From the Napoleonic Wars at the Met: Dispatch 3: The Troops Face the Music
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January 14, 2008Dispatches From the Napoleonic Wars at the Met: Dispatch 2: Dissension in the Ranks
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December 4, 2007Dispatches From the Napoleonic Wars at the Met: Dispatch 1: New Jersey Man Marching for Holy Mother Russia
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