Around the Web

For Saturday, June 19 through Friday, June 25 2010.

1) In the WSJ, historian Ron Chernow on "The Feuding Fathers."

2) At Mises Daily, Jeff Riggenbach on "The brilliant but confused radicalism of George Orwell."

3) At In Character, Emily Colette Wilkinson reviews "Marcus Aurelius: A Life" by Frank McLynn.

4) In the WSJ, opera reviews from Heidi Waleson, including a review of "The Golden Ticket" an opera by composer Peter Ash and librettist Donald Sturrock, based on Roald Dahl's "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory."

5) In Opera News, Ray Sawhill on the film genre of the "composer biopic."

6) Remembering contralto Maureen Forrester.

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