Ep. 007: Lohengrin with Benjamin Poore
“What if the real villain of Lohengrin is three nationalists in a trench coat?”
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When I was four, I dressed up as Mephistopheles from Gounod’s Faust for Halloween and corrected each of my grandparents’ friends when they thought I was the devil. Now I’m a cultural critic (that’s me outside of Sparafucile’s house in Mantua).