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Thread ID: 11092 | Posts: 6 | Started: 2003-11-15
2003-11-15 23:32 | User Profile
[I]If only the San Francisco opera audience would do the same. [/I]
Hated Jewish Theatre Director Flees Rio, Takes Refuge in London News/Comment; Posted on: 2003-11-13 08:55:35 [ Printer friendly ]
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by Jeff Hook
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - In August 2003, a Jewish theatre director by the name of Gerald Thomas (pictured) unveiled an "experimental" version of Wagner's Tristan and Isolde opera at Rio de Janeiro's prestigious Teatro Municipal. The Wagner play is supposed to tell the tale of medieval lovers in an era of knights and chivalry; however, Mr. Thomas had different ideas. His version added a masturbating woman, a nude catwalk show, a Can-Can-like chorus comprised of Hasidic Jews, a Nazi concentration camp, and an actor playing Sigmund Freud who sniffs cocaine and tosses it around like confetti.
The play was not particularly well-received. One critic described Thomas as "reeking of bad art and bad craft." Another wrote that "This Thomas (expletive deleted) should have been locked up and the key thrown away forever. This isn't creativity, it's stupidity and ignorance." A local Rio de Janeiro newspaper suggested that the play was a "telling indicator of the squalid depths to which these postmodern opera productions regularly descend in order to accommodate the outrageous, self-involved, self-serving vandalism of those directors who perpetrate these grotesque productions, and inflict them on a paying public."
And it wasn't just the critics -- those in the opening-night audience at the Teatro Municipal also hated the New York City Jew's radical reworking of the beloved opera. When Thomas appeared at the curtain call, he was greeted with a fusillade of boos, jeers and insults. Thomas responded by turning his back, dropping his pants and underwear, and 'mooning' them. The police promptly booked him for indecent exposure.
Afterward, Thomas was not apologetic. "I do not follow what the composer imagined, because I am not worried about that," he said. "I joined the music of Wagner, an anti-Semite, with the ideas of Sigmund Freud, a Jew that changed thought and the art of the 20th century." Thomas added that he was accustomed to being booed and said that in certain circumstances, like a controversial production of Wagner's Flying Dutchman that he mounted at the Teatro Municipal in 1987, he even preferred that to applause.
The prosecutor who filed the public indecency charges, Gisela Brandão, said that even though "we had the option of shelving the case," she chose to forge ahead because Thomas "didn't want the relief to which he was entitled," referring to the option of admitting guilt and paying a fine of about $400. He must now appear before a judge who will decide whether there are grounds to proceed with the case. Thomas, asked about his rejection of the plea bargain, said: "I do have principles. What kind of example would I be setting for my fellow artists? I don't accept the fact that I committed a crime because I decided to moon the audience in my own theater."
Thomas, 49, was born and raised in Rio, and spent most of his adult life in New York City. His father was a Jewish-communist activist who was run out of Germany by the Hitler regime. His mother was a Lithuanian Jewess who worked as a psychoanalyst -- reportedly for the Lithuanian Communist Party, although that information cannot be confirmed.
According to the New York Times, Thomas has taken refuge in London, and has acknowledged that his staging of Tristan und Isolde was meant to provoke. He also told the Times that he 'mooned' the audience in response to "anti-Semitic catcalls" from the crowd. "From the first three rows I very clearly heard voices saying, 'You filthy little Jew, why don't you go back to the camps?'" he recalled. He went on to declare: "When someone throws a marble ball at you, you should go back with three grenades in your hands."
But now, Thomas has apparently abandoned the 'anti-Semitism' excuse for the dropping of his pants in public. His new strategy is to claim that his prosecution is politically motivated, because he was frequently critical of the Rio de Janeiro state governor in a column he wrote for a local daily newspaper (Note - The paper fired him shortly after the play's debut).
Background: Composer Richard Wagner (1813-1883) was ahead of his time in his understanding of the Jewish survival strategy -- how Jews advance their interests by working systematically to divide and weaken White societies through, among other things, the undermining of White art and culture. In the 1850s, Wagner wrote an important booklet called Das Judebthum in die Musik (Judaism in Music), revealing how Jews poison the arts. Wagner also founded the Bayreuth Festspielhaus, which in the 1930s and 1940s was embraced by Hitler's Germany as a means of educating the public as to the dangers posed by Jewish communism. Wagner called for a "war of liberation" against Jewish influence in culture as a whole, noting that "mentally inbred Jewish intelligentsia" found an audience for their work only because they had succeeded in corrupting public taste through their control of the news and entertainment media.
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2003-11-16 02:00 | User Profile
[QUOTE]Thomas added that he was accustomed to being booed and said that in certain circumstances, like a controversial production of Wagner's Flying Dutchman that he mounted at the Teatro Municipal in 1987, he even preferred that to applause. [/QUOTE]
Of course he does. The public's boos will inevitably change the critics' notices to rave reviews (after all, we mustn't allow the public to decide what's good and bad art on their own - so they must be wrong whenever they render an overwhelming judgment without prompting from an elite).
And Abe Foxman is never far away....cupping his ear to pick up the sound of a Jew being booed in Bora Bora, so he can use the echo as Exhibit A in the cultural and economic shakedown of yet another "anti-Semitic" nation.
2003-11-16 04:01 | User Profile
If only one could find some Black Magic that could give Wagner life for five minutes, he would take care of this evil :censored: .
2003-11-16 09:28 | User Profile
Oy vey, the eternal victims of poisecution.
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His version added a masturbating woman, a nude catwalk show, a Can-Can-like chorus comprised of Hasidic Jews, a Nazi concentration camp, and an actor playing Sigmund Freud who sniffs cocaine and tosses it around like confetti.
Thomas responded by turning his back, dropping his pants and underwear, and 'mooning' them.
**Thomas, 49, was born and raised in Rio, and spent most of his adult life in New York City. His father was a Jewish-communist activist who was run out of Germany by the Hitler regime. His mother was a Lithuanian Jewess who worked as a psychoanalyst -- reportedly for the Lithuanian Communist Party, although that information cannot be confirmed. **
But now, Thomas has apparently abandoned the 'anti-Semitism' excuse for the dropping of his pants in public. His new strategy is to claim that his prosecution is politically motivated, because he was frequently critical of the Rio de Janeiro state governor in a column he wrote for a local daily newspaper
Sounds like the quintessential jew to me.
2003-11-16 17:15 | User Profile
That was so absurd, I thought I was reading a spoof. I'm glad it's the real thing because it means that there are thousands more music lovers who hate der Jude.
2003-11-16 21:23 | User Profile
Reasonable Rick: "It figures a Jew would conceive such a thing. What is it with these people who have to bastardize everything to make it 'edgy'?? And it's always the same thing: sex and sleaze. They shouldn't even be doing remakes of classic pieces of art because they wouldn't know the first thing about anything 'classical'."
JudeoChristianJ.C.: "Well, if it isn't the ol' anti-Semitic canard, huh Rick?? It's always the Jews; the Jews this, the Jews that. It just so happens that they are some of the most talented people in the world. They make things exciting, and get people's attention. Wagner is so stuffy and old that nobody can enjoy or appreciate it today. It's ancient. Plus, Wagner is German, so it shouldn't come as a surprise."
Reasonable Rick: "Can you name any piece of art or entertainment by a Jew that didn't have sleaze, sex, scatalogical references, psychobabble, or something 'avant-garde' in it??"
JudeoChristianJ.C.: "Uhm....let me think...uhm...uhm...uhm...geez, you really got me on that one..."