Prologue

Producer Emmanuel Dzotsi has a tale about something he avoids at all costs, even though it seems to follow him everywhere he goes. (8 minutes)

The musicians in the orchestra for Phantom of the Opera tell reporter Jay Caspian Kang about what it’s like to play the exact same music every single night—for decades.

Sandy Allen tells the story of learning to play an instrument that suddenly sounds very different — his own voice.

Sean Cole speaks to Washington Post reporter Siobhan O’Grady about her visit to the zoo in Kyiv.

Disinformation and propaganda works differently in Putin’s Russia than it did during the Soviet Union.