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frustratedpilot(A postscript to a previous entry.)
Since I didn't have the 'Net last night...
The opera was about three things at once. On the surface, it was about America in the Roaring Twenties.
Beyond that, it was about Germany in the impending transition between the failing Weimar Republic and Hitler's dictatorship.
Beyond that, it's a transformation into a modern-dress Christian Passion Play. The central character is a forestry laborer, who goes to a wicked city, falls in love with a woman who sells her body, gets disgusted with the place, becomes a prophet and is ultimately undone by a moment of weakness and the apathy of his fellows. (I suppose it was intended that the city dies along with him, but it wasn't "shown" as such in the production done on Great Performances.)
Since I didn't have the 'Net last night...
The opera was about three things at once. On the surface, it was about America in the Roaring Twenties.
Beyond that, it was about Germany in the impending transition between the failing Weimar Republic and Hitler's dictatorship.
Beyond that, it's a transformation into a modern-dress Christian Passion Play. The central character is a forestry laborer, who goes to a wicked city, falls in love with a woman who sells her body, gets disgusted with the place, becomes a prophet and is ultimately undone by a moment of weakness and the apathy of his fellows. (I suppose it was intended that the city dies along with him, but it wasn't "shown" as such in the production done on Great Performances.)
