● I HEAR THINGS ARE PRETTY rocky over in the Middle East, but how infinitely more dreadful had the Cambridge “Uni” production of Handel’s Saul actually gone ahead!
Just in time, thank God, they realised how inflammatory it would be to perform this unflinching docudrama about Israelite-Philistinian strife — and more to the point, their fellow crybabies might have detected pro-Israelite propaganda in the blatant show of support for David’s disproportionate response to Goliath’s justified resistance, and that would have been curtains for the Opera Society all right.
It just goes to show and , plus any number of facile interventions in colonialism (), animal rights (), necrophilia (), you name it.
