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When I read the headline this morning on Drudge, I thought about it for a couple of seconds before I clicked on the article. What I EXPECTED to read was that it was indeed a Mozart opera that had been banned, but I expected it to have been Abduction from the Seraglio, instead of Idomeneo. I'm a bit shocked.
Abduction from the Seraglio was set in a Turkish harem, and at the time it was written, Turkey was at WAR with Austria. How ironic it is that the Emperor of Austria gave permission for Mozart to stage both of these operas KNOWING that the subject matter was touchy with his own people, yet modern idiots ban them because they MIGHT offend someone.
Bah!
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