German Director to Stage America-Bashing Opera on Set Depicting 9/11 Ruins

admin — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 04:00:00 +0000

Kristen Fyfe

Later this month, in Erfurt, Germany, a theater troupe will perform an America-bashing version of a Verdi opera. The setting? Ground Zero on Septermber 11, in the ruins of the World Trade Center.

According to a write up in the London Telegraph, the “provocative” staging of Verdi's A Masked Ball constitutes a “populist critique of modern American society.”