05 Aug 2010

Montezuma, Potsdam Music Festival

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e7433bde-a09d-11df-a669-00144feabdc0.html

By Shirley Apthorp [Financial Times, 5 August 2010]

War might be brutal, but enlightened pacifism can be very bad for your health. This might be one reading of Carl Heinrich Graun’s 1755 opera Montezuma, for which Frederick the Great planned the libretto.