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The "bravery" of artistsA German opera house is to unveil a provocative new production staged in the ruins of New York's World Trade Center. It features naked pensioners and Mickey Mouse masks, Hitler salutes and Elvis impersonators. The self-consciously outrageous September 11th staging of Verdi's 'A Masked Ball' has been dreamed up by Austrian director Johann Kresnik. He has described the concoction as a populist critique of modern American society, aimed at showing up the disparities between rich and poor, which attracting a large audience. "It will be a different, a provocative masked ball on the ruins of the World Trade Centre," he told reporters before Saturday's premiere. "The naked stand for people without means, the victims of capitalism, the underclass, who don't have anything anymore." Yes, let's all weep for the victims of capitalism, you hypocritical, sanctimonious assho1e.Read more and contribute! |
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