[mdittmar]

In the epilogue, Idomeneo, the king of Crete, comes on stage with a bloody sack in his hand. He then pulls the heads of Poseidon, Jesus, Buddha and Mohammed out of the sack and places them triumphantly on four chairs.

Not an Opera I'd waste my money on,but at least she has the balls to say "self-censorship out of fear" is unacceptable.

[DesignerChick]

"In the epilogue, Idomeneo, the king of Crete, comes on stage with a bloody sack in his hand. He then pulls the heads of Poseidon, Jesus, Buddha and Mohammed out of the sack and places them triumphantly on four chairs. The opera, set in the capital of Crete just after the Trojan War, addresses human resistance to making sacrifices to the gods. Mozart's original version premiered in 1781."

"The war was fought between the Greeks and Trojans with their allies, upon a Phrygian city of Troy (Ilium), on Asia Minor (modern Turkey). The war lasted for ten years and it has been traditionally dated from 1194 to 1184 BC"


I'm alittle confused on the supposed 'commentary' here. Maybe ze Germans could explain this... how does one reconcile pulling the heads of three people Buddha (year 623)Jesus (1st Century) and Mohammed (year 570) out of sacks around the time of the historical Trojan war about 1000+ years before they were born?

That lack of logic alone is maddening to me. "addresses human resistance to making sacrifices to the gods"....wut?