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2008-04-11 Europe
Anti-US German Hate Opera To Be Performed At Ground Zero
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Posted by Anonymoose 2008-04-11 12:46|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top

#1 aimed at showing up the disparities between rich and poor

Which is based upon the fairy tale MSM pens for them about America. Lets recheck it -

Most of America's "poor" live in material conditions that would be judged as comfortable or well-off just a few generations ago.
The following are facts about persons defined as "poor" by the Census Bureau, taken from various government reports:
— Forty-six percent of all poor households own their own homes. The average home owned by persons classified as poor by the Census Bureau is a three-bedroom house with one-and-a-half baths, a garage, and porch or patio.
— Seventy-six percent of poor households have air conditioning. By contrast, 30 years ago, only 36 percent of the entire U.S. population enjoyed air conditioning.
— Only 6 percent of poor households are overcrowded. More than two-thirds have more than two rooms per person.
— The average poor American has more living space than the average individual living in Paris, London, Vienna, Athens and other European cities. (These comparisons are to the average citizens in foreign countries, not to those classified as poor.)
— Nearly three-quarters of poor households own a car; 30 percent own two or more cars.
— Ninety-seven percent of poor households have a color television. Over half own two or more color televisions.
— Seventy-eight percent have a VCR or DVD player; 62 percent have cable or satellite TV reception.
— Seventy-three percent own a microwave oven, more than half have a stereo, and a third have an automatic dishwasher.
Overall, the typical American defined as poor by the government has a car, air conditioning, a refrigerator, a stove, a clothes washer and dryer, and a microwave. He has two color televisions, cable or satellite TV reception, a VCR or DVD player, and a stereo. He is able to obtain medical care. His home is in good repair and is not overcrowded. By his own report, his family isn't hungry, and he had sufficient funds in the past year to meet his family's essential needs. While this individual's life is not opulent, it is equally far from the popular images of dire poverty conveyed by the press, activists and politicians.
The Specter of Poverty in America, Tuesday, September 21, 2004, By Robert Rector

The image the poor deluded Euro has of America is the much smaller chronic poverty which is driven by human free will to 1-abuse drugs and alcohol, 2-creating families before establishing skills to support them, 3-blowing off one's education opportunities, and 4-keeping to the old ways. That is a self inflicted wound not created by the people or their government.
Posted by Procopius2k 2008-04-11 14:01||   2008-04-11 14:01|| Front Page Top

#2 Ooooh. An Austrian coreographer is staging an opera to tell us what's wrong with America! Maybe the wine critic that whined about Petraeus can take him to dinner?
Nice pics. I guess fat ugly naked people gotta work too..



Posted by tu3031 2008-04-11 14:15||   2008-04-11 14:15|| Front Page Top

#3 “The naked stand for people without means, the victims of capitalism, the underclass, who don’t have anything anymore."

Indeed, though the production looks unlikely to win many prizes for the nuance of its message, Mr Kresnik has succeeded in his other aim, selling out the Erfurt opera house for the premiere.

Nope. None of that "victims of capitalism" shit for Herr Kresnick...
Posted by tu3031 2008-04-11 14:20||   2008-04-11 14:20|| Front Page Top

#4 The naked stand for people without means, the victims of capitalism, the underclass, who don’t have anything anymore.

Oooo.... I thought it was an argument for socialized medicine so these ugly fucks can get some plastic surgery and stop tormenting the rest of us.
Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader  2008-04-11 14:35||   2008-04-11 14:35|| Front Page Top

#5 the opera sounds totally tasteless, Im hoping some clever New Yorkers can stage an over the top protest against it of their own. Id try to contact my orthodox J contacts, but the nudity would scare them off.

OTOH this
"The average poor American has more living space than the average individual living in Paris, London, Vienna, Athens and other European cities. (These comparisons are to the average citizens in foreign countries, not to those classified as poor.)"

Isnt apples to apples - most folks in Euroland dont live in the capital cities, which (Paris especially) are notorious for being places where upper middle class folks trade off space for the benefits of being in the center of town.
Posted by liberalhawk 2008-04-11 14:53||   2008-04-11 14:53|| Front Page Top

#6 LH,

Based only on my own observation the average living space in England is significantly less on any plane of comparison you choose. Also, those American poor are mostly in the cities too.

Posted by AlanC 2008-04-11 15:04||   2008-04-11 15:04|| Front Page Top

#7 It's gonna be in the opera house in Erurt, Germany not NYC. A European "artiste" wouldn't have those kind of balls.
If it was here, and especially at Ground Zero, there'd probably be a beatup Austrian coreographer and some fat, ugly, naked Germans bleeding next to him. And that's if people were in a good mood...
Posted by tu3031 2008-04-11 15:22||   2008-04-11 15:22|| Front Page Top

#8 Tasteless, grotesque and bitterly hateful. Thus proving once again that Germans hate culture and art above all things.

It's not just a German thing. Recent opera productions, especially EUropean, are in a race to the bottom of the well of depravity. Here's a link to an article if anyone's interested.
Posted by xbalanke 2008-04-11 15:28||   2008-04-11 15:28|| Front Page Top

#9 Explain to me again why we went so easy on them in 1945?
Posted by Mike 2008-04-11 16:03||   2008-04-11 16:03|| Front Page Top

#10 Should have let the Soviets keep Austria. They had some wonderful plans for the initiators of WW1 and WW2.
Posted by ed 2008-04-11 17:47||   2008-04-11 17:47|| Front Page Top

#11 Why can't I post?

Posted by ex-lib 2008-04-11 20:01||   2008-04-11 20:01|| Front Page Top

#12 Bieito piously claims to take his cues from the music itself. “I think I am very loyal to Mozart,” he notes. “There is nothing more to say.”

Posted by ex-lib 2008-04-11 20:01||   2008-04-11 20:01|| Front Page Top

#13 and to continue:

Actually, there is a lot more to say. The Abduction from the Seraglio is a humorous tale of the capture of a group of Europeans by a Turkish pasha, who tries to win the love of one of them; Mozart lavishes joyful, driving rhythms—led by piccolo, triangle, and cymbals—on its Turkish themes, and adds a rich lode of elegant solos, particularly for tenor. Bieito transferred the Abduction to a contemporary Eastern European brothel and translated the dignified pasha of Mozart’s sadly irrelevant tale into the brothel’s sick pimp overseer.
Posted by ex-lib 2008-04-11 20:02||   2008-04-11 20:02|| Front Page Top

#14 In one representative moment, the leading soprano, Constanze—who has already suffered digital violation during a poignant lament—is beaten and then held down and forced to watch as the pasha’s servant, Osmin, first forces a prostitute to perform fellatio on him and then gags the prostitute and slashes her to death.
Posted by ex-lib 2008-04-11 20:03||   2008-04-11 20:03|| Front Page Top

#15 not done yet:

Osmin hands the prostitute’s trophy nipples to Constanze, who by then is retching.

The episode perfectly illustrates the opportunistic literalism typical of culturally ignorant—and musically deaf—contemporary directors.
Posted by ex-lib 2008-04-11 20:04||   2008-04-11 20:04|| Front Page Top

#16 unbelievable:

It takes place as Constanze is singing one of the most difficult arias in the soprano literature, “Martern aller Arten” (“Tortures of Every Kind”). “Martern” is an obstacle course of leaps and trills accompanied by melting winds and propulsive harmonies, all meant to convey Constanze’s nobility in refusing the pasha’s demands for her love. It belongs in the long literary tradition of tragic rhetoric; its mention of torture is not a stage direction.
Posted by ex-lib 2008-04-11 20:05||   2008-04-11 20:05|| Front Page Top

#17 Oh heck, who cares about Mozart, anyway . . .

Mozart immediately follows the number with a buoyant aria by Constanze’s maid and a return to the lightest farce—making clear that nothing untoward has happened to Constanze or to anyone else in the opera.
Posted by ex-lib 2008-04-11 20:05||   2008-04-11 20:05|| Front Page Top

#18 This junk is just as destructive to Western Civilization as the liberal facists and Islamic power lords.
Posted by ex-lib 2008-04-11 20:06||   2008-04-11 20:06|| Front Page Top

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