“Like its title character, John Harbison’s opera The Great Gatsby has been waiting years for a second chance at love, or at least acceptance. Coolly received on its 1999 premiere at the Metropolitan Opera, Harbison’s adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel had a run of performances at the Lyric Opera of Chicago and a brief Met revival before retreating to the sidelines, where it languished until it caught the attention of the conductor Nicole Paiement and her enterprising… ”
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