tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post6163606064636643399..comments2024-02-06T16:17:25.826+00:00Comments on THE GRØNMARK BLOG: “Did you order the Code Red?” – “You’re goddamn right I did!” A great right-wing film momentScott Gronmarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-50813454882423874452013-06-08T14:37:10.322+01:002013-06-08T14:37:10.322+01:00Yes! Finally something about hedgehop.
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Only last week, I ...Funny you should mention that.<br /><br />Only last week, I was dragged kicking and screaming to see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Carlos" rel="nofollow"><i>Don Carlo</i></a> at the ROH. Fours hours with only one cigarette.<br /><br />According to Michael Tanner in the <a href="http://www.spectator.co.uk/arts/opera/8903821/economy-class/" rel="nofollow"><i>Spectator</i></a>:<br /><br /><i>[Don Carlo's] alter ego, and the work’s true hero, the freedom fighter Rodrigo, is magnificently taken by ...</i><br /><br />He's half right. Don Carlo certainly isn't the hero. He's a narcissistic drip who can't get over the fact that his father the King of Spain married the French princess Carlo was betrothed to. It's annoying whenever that happens, obviously, but most of us get over it.<br /><br />Not Carlo. He falls in with this Rodrigo chap who thinks it would be a good idea if Spain stopped killing people in Flanders. He even manages to get a hearing before the king for a delegation of Flemings.<br /><br />Nonsense, says the king, it's the only language they understand, it will make them happy in the end and, at the insistence of the Grand Inquisitor, he has Rodrigo executed. Also six heretics.<br /><br />How could Verdi have made it any clearer that monarchs have a statesman's duty that transcends undergraduate grandstanding as a freedom fighter? He couldn't, and yet Tanner thinks that Rodrigo's the hero.<br /><br />Was he watching the same opera?<br /><br />Has he never read <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01slm1l" rel="nofollow">Machiavelli</a> (hugely recommended, that's a link to a Radio 4 play that you must listen to now)?<br /><br />Surtitle: Good grief.David Mosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12345636878071983416noreply@blogger.com