http://www.tressugar.com Smart. Sexy. Fun. en http://www.tressugar.com/1544868 <a href="http://www.tressugar.com/1544868"><img width=160 height=102 src='http://media.onsugar.com/files/upl1/19/193328/15_2008/80591695.large.jpg'></div></a><p>Here's a story that involves Germany, Italian opera, September 11^th, and Mickey Mouse masks . . . oh, and naked people. Mix it all together and what do you get? - a shocking new production of Giuseppe Verdi's un ballo in maschera (A Masked Ball). </p> <p><span class="inline left"></span><br /> The Austrian director Johann Kresnik, plans on staging a populist critique of modern American society, aimed at showing up the disparities between rich and poor. </p> <p><b>Telegraph</b> <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/11/wopera111.xml" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">quotes </a>Kresnik:<br /> <blockquote>"It will be a different, a provocative masked ball on the ruins of the World Trade Center. The naked stand for people without means, the victims of capitalism, the underclass, who don’t have anything anymore."</p></blockquote> <p>Would you see this anticapitalist opera of naked singers, even if you didn't agree with its message?</p> <p><a href="http://www.gettyimages.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Source</a></p> <!-- no strip poll --><form action="/1544868" method="post" id="epoll_view_voting"> <div><div class="poll"> <div class="vote-form"> <div class="choices"><div class="form-item"> <label>Would You Watch an Opera That Incorporates 9/11, Naked Cast?</label> <div class="form-item"> <label for="id-0-1544868" class="option"><input type="radio" id="id-0-1544868" name="edit[choice]" value="0-1544868" class="form-radio" /> Yes. It's a fresh look at a classic opera, and American society.</label> </div> <div class="form-item"> <label for="id-1-1544868" class="option"><input type="radio" id="id-1-1544868" name="edit[choice]" value="1-1544868" class="form-radio" /> No. It is too deliberately over the top to even appreciate as art.</label> </div> <div class="form-item"> <label for="id-2-1544868" class="option"><input type="radio" id="id-2-1544868" name="edit[choice]" value="2-1544868" class="form-radio" /> Maybe. But I might cover my eyes at certain parts.</label> </div> <div class="form-item"> <label for="id-3-1544868" class="option"><input type="radio" id="id-3-1544868" name="edit[choice]" value="3-1544868" class="form-radio" /> Other. I'll tell you in the comments.</label> </div> </div> </div><input type="hidden" name="edit[nid]" id="edit-nid" value="1544868" /> <span class='button'><span><input class='fancybutton' type='submit' name="op" value="Vote" class="form-submit" /></span></span> </div><input type="hidden" name="edit[form_id]" id="edit-form_id" value="epoll_view_voting" /> </div> </div></form> <!-- no strip poll --> http://www.tressugar.com/1544868#comment News Weird News Germany September 11 Verdi Opera wtf Sun, 13 Apr 2008 07:00:44 -0700 LibertySugar http://www.tressugar.com/1544868