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Thoughts on Fidelio (and China)
From Pear L. Echeman:
So I read that the San Francisco Opera Company put on Fidelio and saw some of the pictures of how they were modernizing the production: Review: S.F. Opera’s new ‘Fidelio’ uses chain-link fences and video monitors in a political parable | Datebook (sfchronicle.com)
Then I saw in the Guardian a different company doing the same kinda thing with a modern prison landscape: Fidelio review – musically excellent but panopticon staging is overloaded | Opera | The Guardian
Dutch and Australian productions have recently done pretty much the same thing. I suppose high society is just brimming with creativity these days. Last year, slightly before covid, the UK put on a more planned and articulate production using Robespierre’s Reign of Terror as a backdrop, which is actually fitting for this opera.
Melbourne 2020:
Looks like their 2013 production, but they want to make a big deal about it Fidelio (2020) – Melbourne OperaMET 2020:
Recycling ROH 2011 season
ROH 2020:
Fidelio was not the most highly regarded work by Beethoven, the composer himself was often revising and unsatisfied with it and had no intention for the “final” version that is used today to be the final version he had intended. One aspect that helped it gain popularity in its time was that it belonged to an emerging genre, think Les Miserables, involving prisoners seeking freedom. This was because in the post revolutionary climate, European censors forbade any printed or performed mentions of Freedom pertaining to anything except being released from prison. So, like with Film Noir or gothic fairytales, this prison genre that swept literature and the stage was a way of metaphorically addressing verboten political topics.
Frisco, Europe, and the Bruce’s are following a revival of this opera in a last ditch effort to fill seats when people want to stay home, watch netflix, and eat ice cream (that pandemic needs a name at this point, STG: shelter in place, watch television, and eat garbage food). It’s because Beethoven turned 250 last December and Fidelio is the only visual thing he ever worked on. One place that isn’t trying to jump on Fidelio’s public-domain bandwagon is China, that place with 1.5 billion people give or take a few hundred thousand.
I don’t have China’s Ministry of Culture on speed-dial, so I can’t ask them why Beethoven’s only opera is prohibited [in all formats], but the Panopticon layout of cities, and even rural areas in the 21st century, might come under inauspicious scrutiny if this opera was bandied about.
It’s so fascinating, to me, that if you are under 18 in 2021 and live in China, or Tibet, or Hong Kong, and probably Taiwan (maybe not Taiwan) that you are only allowed to play online video games between 8 and 9 pm on Fri-Sun (so only with people in your time-zone I guess) and you can’t listen to Beethoven’s only opera, but what can you do? Well you can study study study and if you’re good enough, the country will pay for you to go to the most elite universities all over the planet where you can play online video games all day while blasting whatever German aria you want, no questions asked. Huh.
You of course understand that in the US we are not going to get the “real skinny” on China. In China, you are not going to get the real skinny on China, so I’m told. Interestingly, in my limited life, the people I have interacted with from lands afar have not supported the stereotype that I’ve been fed. They are kinda like you and me. Fortunately, until they mandate brain-implants for foodstuffs, the triumph of the human spirit will always work around the censors, discovering new semi-permissible metaphors and swapping names, genders, and races around.
Point being, you can’t censor Fidelio, you can only criminalize artists thus bringing attention to your hypocrisy. Funny thing is that the attendees in a place like San Francisco are so conceited that they identify with Pizzaro, think to themselves this is boring and too long, and then brag about how much they loved it for days to come.
– Pear L. Echeman
So how is it not “hate speech”?
From Piers Robinson:
Dear all:
Important new talk from Dr Colin Alexander:
Coronavirus, Propaganda and the Coming Genocide?
This talk explores the extent to which the draconian actions of governments during the pandemic are similar to early stages of genocide
About this event:
The title of this public lecture has a very deliberate question mark at the end. No one can know what the future holds. Nevertheless, history can teach us many lessons. In 1996 in the aftermath of the atrocities in Rwanda and in the former Yugoslavia Prof. Gregory Stanton (George Mason University) developed a sociological framework to explain the occurrence of genocide as a human phenomenon. This talk examines Stanton’s work and suggests that we are, at the very least, on stage 3 of 10 (Extermination being stage 9) within the current Coronavirus pandemic. The implication being that those who have refused Covid-19 injection(s) are being worryingly vilified, ostracized, misrepresented and discriminated against. Moreover, with little support from those happy to take the injections, ghettoisation beckons if these people do not have full access to employment opportunities.We are thus now at a stage where we can at the very least trace a trajectory towards genocidal activity. Democracy is meant to be built upon tolerance and mutuality as humans and yet this seems to be in short supply. This talk is for everyone and will contain no pro or anti-vaccination messaging.
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My Article About Complete Overhaul of U.S. Financial System Published by Mercola
No longer a conspiracy theory.
https://tessa.substack.com/p/my-article-about-a-complete-overhaul
This story is a collection of news that caught my eye.
#1. My article on Mercola
Last month, Biden’s nominee Saule Omarova published a rather outrageous paper proposing a complete overhaul of the U.S. financial system, moving all accounts to the Fed, and making it possible for the Fed to freeze accounts in case of an “emergency” (which, as we know, in today’s world is a very flexible notion). Omarova’s paper is not a bill, it’s a legal paper—but given that she has been nominated to regulate the U.S. banking system, her position matters—especially given that her position coincides so completely with the stated goals of the Great Reset.
In case you cannot open my article on Mercola website, here is a PDF of the story.
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Disney World Halts Employee Covid Vaccine Mandate After Florida Ban
Forbes
Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, has paused its Covid-19 vaccine requirement for employees and cast members, Fox 35 reported Saturday, just a few days after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a law that prohibits vaccine mandates by employers. Key Facts. Disney World’s cast members received a memo, which Fox 35…
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They lie like rugs, right out in the open
More bad news from a study of 566 vaxxed patients.
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These changes resulted in an increase of the PULS score from 11% 5 yr ACS risk to 25% 5 yr ACS risk. At the time of this report, these changes persist for at least 2.5 months post second dose of vac. We conclude that the mRNA vacs dramatically increase inflammation on the endothelium and T cell infiltration of cardiac muscle and may account for the observations of increased thrombosis, cardiomyopathy, and other vascular events following vaccination.
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1161/circ.144.suppl_1.10712
Simply, the mRNA COVID 19 vaccines by Moderna and Pfizer, are still doubling your risk of heart attacks and strokes 2.5 months after the second shot. Their tests predict 1 out of 4 will have a problem in the next 5 years.