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NEWS ABOUT: Johann Kresnik

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 Verdi, Naked and Anti-American 

Austrian Marxist uses opera to slam US capitalism

(Newser) - A German staging of Verdi’s “A Masked Ball” leaves Uncle Sam wearing little but a mask, Der Spiegel reports. In a rebuke of US capitalism, the production parades naked retirees on a set of the World Trade Center's ruins, and offers a female singer with a Hitler mustache... More »

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theater Germany Marxism opera East Germany anti-Americanism Erfurt Johann Kresnik Giuseppe Verdi

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