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Opera vs. musicals

  • Writer: Amanda Riddell
    Amanda Riddell
  • Dec 7, 2024
  • 1 min read

Well, opera with a capital O has all these strange ties to mysticism and alchemy, which Alan Moore references in Promethea. Monteverdi, like Newton, was a practicing alchemist.


Verdi's operas helped to unify Italy, and he was briefly an MP. Andrew spent decades as a member of the House of Lords. Politics and opera go together. Wellington Stories largely espouses an aesthetic agenda, but The Dakumentary expresses a political agenda.

 
 
 

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