Gender violence takes centre-stage in new Spanish opera
Friday, 8 January 2021 19:18 GMT
Scene from the opera 'Marie'. Madrid, Spain. January 7 2021. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Handout by: Javier del Real | Teatro Real
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By Laura Mannering
MADRID, Jan 8 (Reuters) - The death of a woman at the hands of her former lover is played out repeatedly in a dark new take on a classic opera in Madrid that seeks to leave audiences questioning their own attitudes to gender violence.
In "Marie", award-winning Spanish playwright Lola Blasco recasts an unfinished 19th-century story that inspired the avant-garde opera "Wozzeck" by Austrian composer Alban Berg, first staged nearly a century ago.