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"Instead of denying the charge, one should undermine it by radicalizing it: opera never was in accord with its time - from its very beginnings, it was perceived as something outdated, as a retroactive solution to a certain inherent crisis in music and as an impure art. To put it in Hegelese, opera is outdated in its very concept. How, then, can one not love it?"