Polly graham's Blog – June 2016 Archive (1)

Promenade opera about student revolution - bang on time!

Welsh National Youth Opera are putting on Kommilitonen! (Young Blood) by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. This is an elctrifying documentary opera about young people and politics in the twentieth century.

The piece weves together the stories of victims and aggressors from the Chinese Cultural Revolution, the unique life of James Meredith - the first African American to be accepted into the University of Mississippi in 1962, and the students of the Weisse Rose movement from 1940's…

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Added by polly graham on June 29, 2016 at 8:00 — No Comments

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