REH wrote: > You did ask civilly about Carmen and so I > will answer as best I can. I'm not sure what you are asking about. > > A "Gypsy Carmen" or "Esperanza's Hope" was a production that I conceived, > directed and conducted at LaMama Theater in New York City. ... > I can say that the production was set post WWII when a group of Gypsy opera > singers from all over Europe and the Americas met in a cave in Spain where > there is a theater. In that cave they hoped to revive their careers and > their connection to the opera Carmen that they considered to be one of the > stereotypical art works that branded the Gypsies as thieves and whores by > trade and thus contributed to the image that they felt caused their > Holocaust at the hands of the Germans. (The story is fiction but that fact > is true.) Because they were professionals they felt they had to overcome > artistically the problem with the opera Carmen and truly create a production > that their side of the story. A real "Gypsy" version of Carmen.
Your initial comment about sounded like this Carmen was a Gypsy from Switzerland who had been taken away from their parents: >>> Switzerland stole their kids. Chris claims that they gave them back. >>> When I did the work on the Gypsy Carmen in 1994 that hadn't happened yet >>> and the kids were taken in the seventies. But now it turns out that your "Carmen" was a fictional theater production that has nothing to do with Switzerland. How can you turn this into the serious allegation that Switzerland had not yet given them back in 1994? As usual, such allegations dissolve into hot air when put under scrutiny. > Three years ago my computer crashed and the market systems of the West > making programs obsolete after a couple of years, took all of my work on > that production and destroyed it. All I have are hard copies and I neither > have the desire nor time to scan them in for your use. Sorry, but if you didn't make backup copies (on external media), you have to blame yourself for the loss. A backup copy can always be restored with other old hardware, within a few years anyway. Not even the market Predators can prevent that... ;-9 Chris ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SpamWall: Mail to this addy is deleted unread unless it contains the keyword "igve". _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
