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The Magic Flute woke version: “They censor Mozart because they are incapable of equaling his masterpiece”

2024-02-23T11:12:08.678Z

Highlights: The German collective Critical Classics has modified the libretto of Mozart's opera. The goal is to remove any comments of a discriminatory nature, whether sexist or racist. Zhang Zhang is a violinist and member of the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra. She founded and runs a charity, ZhangomusiQ, which organizes concerts whose proceeds are entirely donated to charities. To discover PODCAST - Listen to the club Le Club Le Figaro Idées with Eugénie Bastié FIGAROVOX.


FIGAROVOX/INTERVIEW - The German collective Critical Classics has just offered a new woke version, stripped of all forms of “sexism” and “racism”, of Mozart’s The Magic Flute. Violinist Zhang Zhang is concerned about the distortion of more and more masterpieces in...


A renowned violinist, Zhang Zhang is a member of the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra.

Also a social entrepreneur, she founded and runs a charity, ZhangomusiQ, which organizes concerts whose proceeds are entirely donated to charities.

She also published

La Voie de l’Archet

(Fayard, 2023).

To discover

  • PODCAST - Listen to the club Le Club Le Figaro Idées with Eugénie Bastié

FIGAROVOX.

- According to the specialist site Forum Opera, the German collective Critical Classics has modified the libretto of Mozart's opera.

The goal ?

Remove any comments of a discriminatory nature, whether sexist or racist, to raise awareness among the general public of these issues.

This collective has thus reimagined

The Magic Flute

.

As a violinist and member of the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, what do you think of this initiative?

ZHANG ZHANG.

-

The main objective of this collective is to create an opera “without victims”.

It sounds more like an episode title of Monty Python or Saturday Night Live, than a musical institution…

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Source: lefigaro

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