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Originally Posted by CB..
it's no wonder they think we're weak.....we won't fight for the really important things the things we SAY are important to us...our culture... if we are as easily prepared to sacrifice our ART (note the capital letters) and our CULTURE then the battle is long since lost....
call me mad but i reckon we lost the battle over the cartoon debacle..
we should have stuck our heels in and point blank refused to bend on the issue...the muslims are behaving like spoilt brats lashing out at anything they think they can use against us....oh sure we have got the military power to stop them but have we got the cultural power to stop them....the one is useless without the other..and it's sad to say that they know this it's unlikely tho the muslims will ever get everything they want simply because we in the west will eventualy get bored (yes i did say bored) with them...just like us brits got bored of hearing about the I.R.A.
"ok blow up the damn supermarket you stupid b*st*rds... i'm sick to death of hearing about it"
course if the world economy collapses which there's a distinct possibility it might and or some global climate nightmare occurs then the whole ball game is up for grabs...but china will probably mop that one up if it comes to it..i dunno....i'd rather we were fighting for cartoons, plays. opera, etc etc than oil maybe if we were things would be working out different..
"where at first they burn books.......there eventualy they will burn people"
they have got us burning our own damn books for gawds sake..if we won't respect our own culture why should they???
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Look, Islamic censorship is not at all desireable, but I have been reading about this planned performance for some time now. The scene in question was never part of the original libretto or score. The severed heads serve as a hinderance to artistic continuity of the piece, as the message of the king's cruelity has been beaten severely by this point. The addition, therefore, serves as meaningless excess.
Yes, directors do cite artistic liberty when doing this to opera. Everyone can recall the Patrice Chereau production of the Ring Cycle; perhaps the most famous example. Unfortunately, this tends to distort the original intent of the production, and what you get is an opera that is more by Chereau or Hans Neuenfels than by Richard Wagner, or W. A. Mozart. In this regard, I say good riddance to the Deutche Oper production.