National Opera

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“The signs look better. The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea. Thanks to the great North-West for it. Nor yet wholly to them.... The job was a great national one.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

“The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.”
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