Summary
With its theme of liberation from tyranny, the opera's place in the leftist canon was always guaranteed: the Marxist philosopher Ernst Bloch declared that "every future storming of the Bastille "is enacted in Fidelia. While the incarcerated hero Florestan (played on 14, 16 and 2.4 June by the excellent Simon O'Neill) and his liberator, DonFernando, are understood to be of noble birth and to have natural authority, the prison governor and his lackey gaoler are shown as unsettled, paranoid agents in the new, upwardly mobile society.
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Cry Freedom
From the Bastille in 1789 to Whaml's igSos pop anthem, mankind's cries for freedom occur with perhaps more regularity and intensity than for any other object of human aspiration. In its name, we engage in everything from buying cars to fighting wars, just and unjust. But what does fr...
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