IRON CURTAIN OPERA
OU,---in MS CaRgQerness tO Viilin, 4 ie Consul up to date and make the opera "topical," somebody blundered in the introductory remarks to the programme (on sale at the performance), It was stated there and in The Listener that the action was "obviously" taking place in an iron curtain country, and a few
lines later we were told that the hero was fleeing from "Fascists." Surely you can’t have it both ways? Menotti wrote his drama at a time when Fascistand Nazi-persecutions roused indignation and pity. It was "obviously" not directed towards an iron curtain country which then did not exist, though the human plight which is the theme of the opera is, of course, a world-wide one. > Incidentally, if guesses have to be made it is not difficult to know what country the never-seen consul represents}
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 946, 27 September 1957, Page 11
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143IRON CURTAIN OPERA New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 946, 27 September 1957, Page 11
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