I'd like to withdraw what I said to Richard below.
I've only just realised (working through the sequence of posts in this
thread once more) that at least two never reached me. One was Richard's
question to Alison, and the second was her reply to him. I've managed to
work this out (if I've got it right even now) by references in the posts I
+do+ have, to posts which appear never to have reached me.
I took Richard's comments to link to Alison's +original+ post. The missing
posts obviously change the context in which I'd have read his words.
My apologies (and especially to Richard) for this confusion (and to everyone
to whom my explanation may seem equally confused).
Robin
> > Does the opera advance any notion that the Palestianians might be
> > pawns in the hands of larger geopolitical forces? Does it compare
> > their leadership with that of, say, Martin Luther King or Mahatma
> > Ghandi?
>
> The problem I have with this, Richard, is that it's implicitly challenging
> the opera in terms of what it +doesn't+ say rather than what it does. I'm
> bothered, given that there are always innumerable things that can be said,
> and almost +any+ work could be faulted for "omissions".
>
> Anyway, Alison's post was the first I'd heard of the opera, or the issue
> (or, indeed, I'm ashamed to say, the composer!). So I'm off to chase the
> link that Jeremy kindly provided, to try and find out more.
>
> Cheers
>
> Robin
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