Aida, Royal Opera, Covent Garden, April 2010
Posted on 28 April 2010David McVicar’s new production strips away the Egyptian baggage and places events in an ancient time of masculine combat, female sexual energy, and human sacrifice.

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David McVicar’s new production strips away the Egyptian baggage and places events in an ancient time of masculine combat, female sexual energy, and human sacrifice.
Imagine a Christian Taliban in Spain, putting men, women and children in Flanders — all heretics — to the sword.