On the Nature of Things | Forum

Hoosiernorm wrote:

Typhoon wrote:
Van Cliburn, age 23, on his way to winning the International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow in 1958

Heard that he had passed. We didn't get the first rate high culture at the house, I mean we listened to Tchaikovsky but it was usually a Liberace album.

(My mother adored Liberace)

Motezuma is no typical baroque love opera but rather an historical work which depicts the destruction of a people and a culture by use of force and violence.

The contrast and the striking differences between the Aztecs and the Spanish are revealed in every detail, even in the body movements in the fighting scenes. A victim of the Spanish, Motezuma turns out to be a violent and aggressive leader himself.

The stage set makes use of deep symbolical language: the main element on stage is the cross-shaped and blood-stained platform. The use of colours and lighting is also intended to enhance the characters' complex personalities.