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Aug 16, 2007 03:01 PM Burnt children, low taxes, and Regietheater by James Panero
Today in The New York Sun, our own music critic Jay Nordlinger reports from the Salzburg Festival on a a particularly bad example of "director’s theater," which I wrote about here last week. The opera Der Freischütz, by Carl Maria von Weber, is a Christian tale, Nordlinger writes. "But how do you handle a Christian tale on a continent whose elite culture is decidedly post-Christian, to say the least?" Well, here is how Falk Richter, a director from Hamburg, handled it: Check out Nordlinger’s entire description of what can happen to a Christian opera in post-Christian Europe.
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