Posted 6:42 PM by Gene

The other day Ben "Producers" Brantley went bonkers over that Jerry Springer "opera", and this relatively damning review -- that is to say, damning next to Ben's -- suggests we should expand our campaign against ad-blurbists to include all genres. Ben was clearly excited because the masterwork struck all his chords about the EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVIL that is America, but this writer hints at something far worse -- it's DATED. This is a fatal sin in "opera", which can't rely on the deep navel staring or jet-engine screaming of its "music" and so must rely on being fashionable. It might have been fashionable for a teeny tiny British clique to do to Christians what it would NEVER do to -- well, you know the religion, but alas, we've heard that old America-stinks rag a million times, and really, who in his right mind paid attention to this loudmouth outside his fans? But there are press agents to be stroked, and prejudices to be confirmed, and so another piece of -- brilliance goes down the rat hole, and any hopes that opera can be more than a faddish political diatribe get further atomized.