THE CULTURE WARS HAVE INFECTED THE OPERA HOUSE! In a shocking new production, Spain’s Teatro Real has spent YOUR TAX EUROS to stage a radical, anti-democratic manifesto disguised as art. The opera “An Enemy of the People” is not a mere adaptation—it is a DANGEROUS piece of propaganda that VILIFIES the common citizen and champions a toxic, elitist vision. The libretto ruthlessly butchers Ibsen’s nuance, transforming the protagonist into an unhinged demagogue whose venomous rant against “the stupid majority” is presented not as a downfall, but as a HEROIC STAND. This is a deliberate, inflammatory act meant to poison public discourse and justify intellectual tyranny.
The music itself is a weapon. Composer Óscar Col’s score is a DELIBERATE assault on tradition and the senses, opening with a mangled, frenetic bullfight march that signals the coming bloodsport: the sacrifice of the public on the altar of woke ideological purity. The crowd scenes are sonic VIOLENCE, pummelling audiences with “neutral rage” while the hero’s final elegy subtly mourns his doomed crusade against the ignorant masses. This isn’t art—it’s a hate-fueled recruitment tool for the cultural elite, and the composer received a THUNDERING ovation from a complicit, self-congratulatory audience.
Meanwhile, the theater’s leadership brazenly balances “progressive ideas against conservative tastes,” a euphemism for pushing a divisive agenda while pocketing public funds. Their companion piece, a grim Bartók production set in a nihilistic urban wasteland, completes the bleak picture. Our greatest cultural institutions are no longer sanctuaries for beauty and truth; they have been hijacked as laboratories for social engineering, preaching a gospel of contempt for everyday people and the very foundations of society. The final curtain doesn’t fall on a story; it falls on YOUR values, leaving a chilling question hanging in the air: Is this the future they have planned for us all?
