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2019-12-17 13:00:04
The grime drama was pulled from cinemas in Birmingham over fears of violence, but at the Royal Opera House, Wagner’s Siegfried promotes knife crime and provoked a punchup This is a tale of two cities. In Birmingham, a screening of Blue Story, a gritty depiction of a fond boyhood friendship between two young black British men tragically sundered by gang-related postcode wars, sparked a mass brawl in the cinema foyer, unacceptably making girls queuing for a singalong to Frozen 2 run away in fear. In London in October last year, a production of Siegfried, an opera about a tooled-up psychopath, similarly provoked fisticuffs. But which one got withdrawn from view? Was it Rapman’s directorial debut about Britain in crisis with a grime soundtrack for an audience of ordinary millennials and Gen Zedsters, or the Victorian Opera promoting knife crime set in a ludicrous fairyland by an antisemitic megalomaniac, and served […]
2019-09-12 02:21:45
BY ALEXANDRA MATHEW Many artists will be content with cultivating and successfully maintaining just one career in their lifetime. Not so for Elizabeth Hill-Cooper —
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