Campaigners gave out leaflets at a performance of opera Carmen on the 1st December 2008 in Cambridge after learning that the stage was going to be mocked up as a bull ring. “We have nothing against the opera as such but find the stunt and marketing ‘insensitive’, it trivialises the cruelty of bull fighting”.
“Bulls are deliberately weakened before a performance, they add laxatives in their food and sandbags on their back. They drug them. They insert lances into their back and neck muscles. Then they taunt them and kill them.” Says a Animal Rights Cambridge spokesperson. “It’s no sport, it’s animal cruelty”.
The campaigners say that they think the opera will be pulling similar stunts in other cities and expect that it will meet with similar opposition. “We hope the organisers of this performance will think about the kind of message they are sending out, it is no longer acceptable to trivialise animal cruelty.”
Bull Fighting Factsheet:
http://www.peta.org/MC/factsheet_display.asp?ID=64
Carmen Corn Exchange Promotion:
http://www.cornex.co.uk/ccm/cornex/2008/carmen.en;jsessionid=F87D762F9B8097495DE300CAE21C7573
The Carmen Website
http://www.ellenkent.com/live/carmen/
“Bulls are deliberately weakened before a performance, they add laxatives in their food and sandbags on their back. They drug them. They insert lances into their back and neck muscles. Then they taunt them and kill them.” Says a Animal Rights Cambridge spokesperson. “It’s no sport, it’s animal cruelty”.
The campaigners say that they think the opera will be pulling similar stunts in other cities and expect that it will meet with similar opposition. “We hope the organisers of this performance will think about the kind of message they are sending out, it is no longer acceptable to trivialise animal cruelty.”
Bull Fighting Factsheet:
http://www.peta.org/MC/factsheet_display.asp?ID=64 Carmen Corn Exchange Promotion:
http://www.cornex.co.uk/ccm/cornex/2008/carmen.en;jsessionid=F87D762F9B8097495DE300CAE21C7573 The Carmen Website
http://www.ellenkent.com/live/carmen/
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Stunt?
10.12.2008 13:19
Seems a bit weird to accuse the opera's producers of the "stunt" of setting it in a bull-fighting arena.
One of the opera's main characters is... a bull-fighter and one of the opera's most famous bits of music is the Toreador's Song. So it's a natural setting.
Guess it's a nice excuse for a protest on a worthy subject, but the "stunt" bit is at your end.
Norville B
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10.12.2008 13:46
Animal Rights Cambridge
Fair play
10.12.2008 14:39
Fair play. Like your Taming of the Shrew analogy.
Norville B