Not a Fat Tuesday, but a Fat Weekend. On Saturday morning the Metropolitan Opera simulcast of Verdi’s last opera, Falstaff. On Sunday night a home viewing of The Whale. Both are all about fatness. The first of these spectacles is universally praised as an enduring and humane masterpiece. As conductor Daniele Rustioni put it while More

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