In its 425 years of existence opera has played a part in many political events--The Marriage of Figaro, though very much neutralized from its French source, caused some anguish in Vienna, Verdi composed his first fifteen or so operas advocating an end to Austrian rule in Italy, and Berg's Wozzeck dramatized the plight of the impoverished, undernourished and invisible humans ground underfoot by … [Read more...]
Speight Jenkins on the art of Opera
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