“Opera, unlike almost all other art forms, was invented.”

These people are in Red’s immortal words: Dumb-asses!

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=3&ved=0CCMQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fuserpages.umbc.edu%2F~korenman%2Fwmst%2Ffairytale_more.html&ei=Dqn2TqTqDcbWrQfQirHRDw&usg=AFQjCNGgeSO6nWqtYxojKe_u2meqkgztWA

and this feminist rewrite:
We’ve all read the story about Hansel and Gretel as children. I, for one, was terrified by it. Mean stepmothers, dark forests, witches with massive ovens that want to cook and eat children?! Perhaps it is fitting, then, that Louise Murphy puts a clever spin on this fairy tale, and weaves it into a fictional and terrifying account of the survival of two Jewish children during the Holocaust.

Go trolling the collectve as they are winning unopposed other than a few older women claiming they don’t represent them

as if that has any meaning beyond their own ears

this is a post modernist matriarchy get used to it
they won
though beating up people who loved u and wanted to do what u want was no real trick
opposing the new masters
that will be different as we all know how much women play a role on actual communist states or Islam!!
They don’t
and they will be surprised
and will whine to be saved to people who aren’t there and generally don’t care
and will not give them a voice but for show
such is politics of despotism!!!!!!
Enjoy ur beds

Hansel and Gretel stared up at this symbol of an American Dream House with wide, shining eyes and even wider stomachs, and in that very moment they too strayed from the philanthropic path of protagonists and rejoiced in this great materialistic discovery. Uncaring that this house was an illustration of neglect in nutritional and moral values, they began to break off portions of the gingerbread and sweets and energetically eat. But a conventionally innocuous old woman wearing a black cape appeared at the front door, watching Hansel and Gretel greedily consume her property with a calm curiosity.

read the teaching guide and note that it’s a feminist tale of a drunken abusive father and that both parts are played by girls making hansel a metrosexual and more buried in a huge amount of general technical stuff
see
A Postmodernist’s Hansel and Gretel

The father, obviously noting my earlier contradiction that the family was happy without money and then almost immediately labeling them consumerists, gave into Capitalist influence and married a wealthy woman who dominated him and forced a passive role onto him, causing great gender confusion. Realizing that not only was she breaking female stereotype, she was also a stepmother and therefore evil, so she began to plot sweet Hansel and Gretel’s disappearance.

it would pay to wake
up and pay attention to what’s actually going on

Never fear, sister!” said Hansel in a heroic fashion. “We must protect our old-fashioned, insular, misogynistic beliefs! When Stepmother invites us into the forest with her, I shall use the elements of the forest – a representation of nature and its rejection of materialism – to thwart her wretched plan. I shall drop stone by stone behind me as we walk, then when we are lost, we shall follow the trail of stones back home.”

and

The times and sfgate are praising teaching the humanities through rewriting hansel and gretel
Met opera’s ‘Hansel’ is a musical food feast
MIKE SILVERMAN, For The Associated Press
Updated 11:22 a.m., Saturday, December 17, 2011

Sometimes I think of things I have read that say that there are angels who sing God’s praises without ceasing. I wonder what that would sound like.

This truly made my night more beautiful. I will remember the image of the angels at the end of the music, and it will be a comfort!

I often have uplifting experiences when I watch the dance and other art videos you bring to my attention.

Thanks! All the best for the Holidays, Merry Christmas to the Christian flock, and a Happy New Year to us all.