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Yet what makes this potentially the most important new opera of the year is not Huang’s agreeably efficient — and once in a while inspired — score, which incorporates Western and traditional music.

“What happened to Baba that made him like this?”

His words were matter-of-fact, but his tone made me feel like I shouldn’t have mentioned it.

“This story is completely made up,” she wrote on X.

When I was in the car with him, all these stories came flooding out and it made me think that from a literary perspective, the FA Cup is quite a profound kind of framework.