Video: Australian opera canceled Carmen over smoking propaganda
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The Western Australian Opera has refused to stage Georges Bizet's Carmen on its stage. The fact is that the specialists of the state health agency Healthway considered that the opera was promoting tobacco smoking. In the event that a performance with such content is substituted, the sponsorship agreement for $ 400 thousand between the theater and the Healthway agency, which should come into force from March 2020, will be in jeopardy. But at the same time, the administration of the theater claims that the troupe made the decision to cancel the production on its own.
According to the general director of the Western Australian Opera House, Carolyn Chard, the theater takes care of opera lovers and wants to show in their performances what is useful, and not what can destroy their health.
Representatives of the Healthway agency stressed that they did not exert any pressure on the theater. “We are very pleased that the theater has decided to abandon the production of Carmen and tell the whole world about it,” Healthway said.
Tony Abbott, Prime Minister of Australia, could not resist commenting on the ban and said that "political correctness has gone crazy."
Recall that the main heroine of the opera by Georges Bizet the gypsy Carmen works at a tobacco factory. Like many other characters in this opera, she smokes a lot.
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