March 25, 2011
Castleton Opera at Zellerbach
The brutal and the ridiculous—as art.
It is seldom possible to view works of art in context. We need to allow for the mores and prejudices of their time. That was painfully apparent at Zellerbach Hall last weekend, where the denigration of women was the context, if not the heart, of the Castleton Opera Project.
Thursday and Friday they mounted The Rape of Lucretia,...