This is a very interesting review in WSWS of what promises to be a 'good modern opera' - for an old fashionista that is almost a contradiction in terms. Interesting that the WSWS praises its anti-war theme but the NYT review (also attached) cautions that it is: " a little pat to describe “Grounded” — as Peter Gelb, the Met’s general manager, did in an interview in May with The New York Times — as an “antiwar opera.” It is not exactly that, even if it culminates (spoiler alert) in Jess intentionally crashing the $17 million Reaper because she hallucinates that her target’s daughter is her own. The opera implies that old-fashioned fighter piloting is nobler, and better for soldiers’ mental health, than the video-game-style drone deployment that has expanded the battlefield to encompass, potentially, all of us. Darkly, given the state of global affairs lately, the piece seems to say that war is OK; there are just better and worse — more and less authentic — ways of waging it."
However - I would certainly try to get rush tickets if I were in/near NYC. Mind - I do not know what the music is like, since I cannot access any of the videos. H https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/11/12/wwau-n12.html?pk_campaign=wsws-newsletter&pk_kwd=wsws-daily-newsletter ( https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/11/12/wwau-n12.html?pk_campaign=wsws-newsletter&pk_kwd=wsws-daily-newsletter ) and https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/29/arts/music/grounded-review-washington-national-opera.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ZU4.lhE2.UG-AHHTy0jEc&smid=url-share -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#33531): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/33531 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/109533959/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
