"Not the work but the timing" is something I've heard a couple of times now as planned productions of plays and operas meet with protest. Symphonic and chamber music performances get off scot free.
Elaine Calder
‘It was refreshing to speak with a group of 𝘒𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘩𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳 protesters who had actually listened to the work and read the libretto: the opera wasn’t bad, they said; the timing was.’
@oliviagiovetti.bsky.social on Luca Guadagnino’s new staging in Florence.
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By now, a production of John Adams’s opera The Death of Klinghoffer presumes its own opposition. At the Teatro del...
