"The Metaliad" -- William Berger's new book now available!

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An Epic of Heavy Brooklyn (in Ottava Rima) Buy William Berger's newest book!
The Story of María Elena and KILTER’s Jazz-Metal Opera La Suspendida

The Story of María Elena and KILTER’s Jazz-Metal Opera La Suspendida

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The cutting-edge, genre-of-one jazz-metal opera La Suspendida has a story behind it – in every sense. The opera is based on a notorious incident in history: a doctor in Florida obsessed on a patient even after her death, keeping her corpse as his wife for years before he was finally compelled to bury her. However, the drama is centered on her story as a character who is both alive and dead – “suspended,” in a sense. The opera’s libretto and a fictionalization with historical background are included here. But so is the story behind the opera – how a group of very different people came together to write this, and some of the many ideas and issues at stake in the work’s creation.

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Seeking the Sublime Cache: Opera Articles Selected and Written by William Berger

Seeking the Sublime Cache: Opera Articles Selected and Written by William Berger

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This book is a collection of articles and presentations by William Berger, author, lecturer, and radio commentator for the Metropolitan Opera. The individual articles were written for a wide variety of major institutions, opera companies, and universities over the last 12 years. Each chapter looks at the importance of the works under consideration and questions why they hold a place in the public discourse: "What's the thing about each of these?" The goal is to place opera itself squarely within the actual world, including interpersonal and global politics. The book is aimed equally at the opera-insider and the opera-outsider, with engaging ideas for both. There is additional new commentary that could not have been written in the original publications. The result is a compendium of new thoughts and insights about very old stories, uncompromising and sometimes provocative in addressing today's volatile world of ideas in conflict. 
All books will be signed. If you want a special inscription, order your book and then write us at WilliamBergerPresents@gmail.com!

"Whip smart. Told with remarkable clarity and wit."

--Holly Goldberg Sloan, New York Times Bestselling Author, Film Director / Producer 

"Neophytes and connoisseurs alike will be swept up in his comprehensive, exuberant vision."

--Alex Ross, Author and Music Critic, The New Yorker

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Sublime Cache T-Shirt

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Luxuriate around the house drinking champagne or show some street cred while skateboarding to your local watering hole in this great T-shirt showing a design on the front of the shirt inspired by the cover of William Berger's new book Seeking the Sublime Cache!

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Justino Díaz has received the Kennedy Center Honors Ribbon in 2021 for an artistic career spanning 40 years in opera. He appeared in two of our seminars in 2020, one each in the EPIC OF OPERA VIDEO PACKAGE and the OPERA AND FILM VIDEO PACKAGE. You can also buy each video separately!

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These webinars intend to engage people on the deepest levels, no matter who they are or what their experience of these media is or isn’t. The goal is to leave no attendee behind, and no attendee unchallenged. “What we’re talking about, ultimately, is how some of the greatest visionaries have interpreted life, and how they’ve recreated life by the impact of their art,” Berger adds. “What we’re looking at as how we see ourselves and our world.”

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Opera and Film Individual Videos

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Author / Commentator William Berger

William Berger has written on a variety of subjects, including architecture, religion, and sports. He is the author of several books and numerous articles, and has been a familiar voice on radio for over 20 years. He is a commentator for the Metropolitan Opera and is heard on Met Opera Radio’s Sirius/XM broadcasts and the podcast series “In Focus”, and is responsible for the Met’s Opera Quiz. He is a keen and active supporter of new music in a variety of genres and frequently produces and hosts live music events in New York City. 

For a longer bio, see the About Us page.

  • "Witty, knowledgeable, iconoclastic, and emphatically nonacademic...Often outrageously funny."

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"Witty, knowledgeable, iconoclastic, and emphatically nonacademic...Often outrageously funny."

-- Library Journal
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