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We are in dire need of mass-scale entertainment

I call on my fellow artists, media companies, and entertainment institutions to bring back the glamour, bring back the pageantry, and bring back the class. I, for one, am ready to get started.

Opera singer Antonina Ermolenko says, 'as an opera singer probing for meaning in my art form in the current era, I have found it in this common need for age-old ritualistic expression of our most profound emotions. We are not meant to consume art in bite-sized pieces. We yearn to get swallowed up in the grandeur of the sacred.'Photograph courtesy of Raffaele Castiglione Morelli

BY ANTONINA ERMOLENKO

February 18, 2021

TORONTO—As I watched the inauguration of Joseph R. Biden this Jan. 20, something stirred in my heart. Something that has been building and trying to find a voice for years. Something that resonat...

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