Crimes of passion: In the humid, sweat-stained nights of summer, they’re the stuff of our beach house reading, our movie-watching, our outdoor stages under the probing, bug-flecked spotlights. They intertwine love and death — endlessly fascinating, endlessly seductive — and throw in mitigating circumstances to awaken not only our horror but our sympathy. Who doesn’t understand how the intense heartbreak of betrayal could lead people to murder, or dream, sometimes, of losing themselves in the embraces of a gorgeous soul mate, spouse or no spouse? The appeal is part voyeurism, part wish fulfillment. Opera, in particular, profits: without crimes of passion, the standard repertory would be slender indeed.
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