Those who can make you believe absurdities, will make you commit atrocitie
—VoltaireA Night @ The Opera With Al Gore
An Inconvenient Truth - The Opera.
Or, Der Ring das Gorelungen.
Or, Der Ring das Gorelungen.
La Scala di Milano commissions an opera on Al Gore's global warming fantasy. Now this will definitely put opera back where it belongs.
Will Domingo or Alagna sing the leading role? Will Zeffirelli "rococo" it, or will it be a Bob Wilson "post-modernist/mortem" extravaganza? Is Donatella Versace or Agatha Ruiz de la Prada doing the designs? Above all, who is going to pay 300€ to see this shit????
Maybe the spirit of Verdi, Puccini, Donizetti, Bellini and Rossini along with those of Callas, Nilsson, Gencer and Tebaldi will rise up like furious Valkyries and bring the whole theatre crashing down like Walhalla on the lot.
Who knows, considering how demented and hideous the idea is, maybe even Wagner may decide to join in too, on the grounds of the unacceptable decline in Nazi artistic standards, and the sheer degeneracy and artistic bankruptcy of this proposal.
Here, shouts of: Entartete Kunst!! would be more than justified.
Now that would be a truly great night at the opera!!
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Readers comment:
Perhaps the opera will be named, “Algoretto”. The most remembered aria will of course be “Il clima e mobile”. (Apologies to Verdi)