A new take on a touchy theme

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The agony, ecstasy and inherent sexual innuendo of today?s soap opera plots seem almost tame compared with the bleak story line of Benjamin Britten?s “The Rape of Lucretia.”

Yet in the hands of Roger Brunyate, the director of Peabody?s Chamber Opera, there is a lot less finger-pointing and moral indignation.

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