Opera, sexual violence, and the art of telling terrible tales
- Written by The Conversation
At its best, opera can, indeed, be a powerful form of allegorical theatre.EPA/Gian Ehrenzeller (Image from Verdi's I due Foscari)As an art form routinely accused of contemporary irrelevancy, opera rarely makes headline news. But a new staging in London of Rossini’s Guillaume Tell (1829), a work perhaps best known today for bequeathing the...






