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When Adams finally produced his personal phone the next day, it was locked with a new six-digit passcode that the mayor refused to give over to the feds, claiming that he could not remember it.

Across industries and companies, workers have been asking how much of their lives they are willing to give over to their bosses.

Both shows love to play off what viewers “hope” will happen, and their disciplined refusal to give over to the more familiar contours of happy endings and redemption make them richer and more fraught.

It was challenging, especially in the first rehearsals, to not give over to the emotional satisfaction of singing that song then, because with each new scene, there’s a time jump and we have to start fresh as if what we just performed hasn’t happened yet.

In “Roméo et Juliette,” Gounod’s music expresses the emotional growth of Shakespeare’s young lovers: Juliet’s frothy waltz and Romeo’s swooning soliloquy early in the opera give over to the sensual, intense duets of Acts IV and V, which have a new maturity informed by their love story’s mortal stakes.