Someone wrote AN OPERA about it which kind of squicks me a little bit
I guess you can't say that ninety years later is too soon for opera, especially when I don't feel the same way about John Adams' Nixon in China (1987) or Doctor Atomic (2005), but I understand why you feel weird about it. (Any discussion of the opera of John Adams and too soon must take into account The Death of Klinghoffer (1991), where aside from the conversation about the success of its portrayal of Israel/Palestine, six years later when the family is still devastated seems rather too soon to rip from the headlines and not change the names at all.)
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Date: 2022-02-05 08:14 pm (UTC)I guess you can't say that ninety years later is too soon for opera, especially when I don't feel the same way about John Adams' Nixon in China (1987) or Doctor Atomic (2005), but I understand why you feel weird about it. (Any discussion of the opera of John Adams and too soon must take into account The Death of Klinghoffer (1991), where aside from the conversation about the success of its portrayal of Israel/Palestine, six years later when the family is still devastated seems rather too soon to rip from the headlines and not change the names at all.)