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A performer looks into a mirror during a dress rehearsal for the opera “Toxic PSalms” January 8, 2015 in New York. The choir, in its origins in ancient Greece, served to explain what a solitary performer could not express and offered a mirror for the audience. For the innovative theater company Carmina Slovenica, the concept of a choir also provides a broader political lens — to show how an individual can be swept up in the violence of the group. The Slovenian ensemble has taken the concept to New York with performances of its intellectually challenging “Toxic Psalms” at Prototype, a festival of experimental opera whose third edition opened on January 8. AFP PHOTO/DON EMMERT (Photo credit should read DON EMMERT/AFP/Getty Images)
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