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LAST DAYS OF THE OPERA - CHRISTIAN KIRCHER GERT...

The title is inspired by the epic drama The Last Days of Mankind by Karl Kraus. Published in
full in 1922  its author ridicules the interconnected ills of modernity that he saw as fueling
the war machine (nationalism  capitalism  unbridled technology  militarism  journalistic
unscrupulousness) as well as the Viennese cultural scene of the time. The drama bears chilling
parallels to our world in 2020. The goal of the anthology  which includes some 100 essays  is
to consider the relevance of opera in today's dystopian world and to look to possible
developments in the genre in the foreseeable future. The writers include opera professionals:
singers  directors  and conductors as well as creative minds from other fields  like
philosophers  artists  film directors  and actors. The book features an iconography of original
works by famous artists  in particular those of the renowned stage designer Richard Peduzzi.
Authors include: Marina Abramovic  Laurie Anderson  Cecilia Bartoli  Georg Baselitz  George
Benjamin  Robert Carsen  Amira Casar  Martin Crimp  Peter Gelb  Markus Hinterhauser  Mariss
Jansons  Philippe Jordan  Jonas Kaufmann  William Kentridge  Christian Lacroix  Daniel
Libeskind  Christa Ludwig  Katie Mitchell  Jonathan Meese  Riccardo Muti  Shirin Neshat 
Hermann Nitsch  Hans Ulrich Obrist  Richard Peduzzi  Denis Podalydès  Thaddaeus Ropac  Bogdan
Roscic  Tilda Swinton  Keith Warner  Robert Wilson.

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