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Tammy Nguyen Plumbs Nationhood and the Sea in New Opera

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Artist Tammy Nguyen will present the foreword to her debut opera Timaeus and The Teacher at the 61st Venice Biennale's closing program on November 13 and 14, capping off an eventful edition of the international contemporary art festival. The aria is the entry point to Nguyen's still-unfinished opera, which traces the national and ideological impacts of the Vietnam War and fuses Plato’s theories of the cosmos with enduring questions of identity. Inspired by her father's expe

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