Porn
Opera Causes Uproar
Russia's
Bolshoi Theater has sparked outrage by putting on an opera that
some lawmakers and a pro-Kremlin youth group say is pornographic.
The opera, "Rosenthal's Children," is about a scientist who
clones five great classical composers -- Tchaikovsky, Mozart,
Wagner, Mussorgsky and Verdi. The scientist then dies, and the
cloned musicians -- unprepared for life on their own in the
1990s -- end up on the street.
Mozart,
the youngest of them, falls in love with a prostitute whose
pimp is always interfering. In the end, the pimp poisons all
five geniuses. Some members of the Russian parliament have described
the state-funded Bolshoi's first new opera in more than 30 years
as pornographic, vulgar and unsuitable for such a venerable
institution. "It is immoral to depict the world's greatest composers
... as bums who drink vodka and rub shoulders with prostitutes
that play music in a train station and beg for money," said
Sergei Neverov, who initiated a resolution criticizing the opera.
"We are protesting that a man who is a pornographer and uses
foul language is being given a platform in the Russian State
Bolshoi Theater, with state funds," the group's head, Vasily
Yakemenko, told The Associated Press. Moving Together activists,
who have staged daily demonstrations at the central Moscow theater,
plan to protest at its entrance but would not try to disrupt
the performance, he said. "If people want to go to the opera
of a pornographer, that's their choice," Yakemenko said.
The
Holistic Wisdom Corporation