{"id":56937,"date":"2018-09-04T15:29:08","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T13:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/09\/04\/paul-bunyan-review-a-cross-between-cunning-little-vixen-and-a-tuc-meeting\/"},"modified":"2018-09-04T15:29:08","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T13:29:08","slug":"paul-bunyan-review-a-cross-between-cunning-little-vixen-and-a-tuc-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=56937","title":{"rendered":"Paul Bunyan review \u2013 a cross between Cunning Little Vixen and a TUC meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wilton\u2019s Music Hall, LondonBritten and Auden\u2019s folklore opera might be barmy \u2013 with singing lumberjacks, a blue ox and a giant superhuman and unseen hero, but ENO has turned it into something genuinely worthwhileWhat on earth is Britten\u2019s Paul Bunyan? A satire on capitalism? A New World response to Soviet-style social realism? A Broadway musical manqu\u00e9? Or the fever dream of two young artists let loose on a baffling slice of foreign folklore? In its first ever ENO production, it appears to be all these things and more, but it\u2019s the fever dream that comes out top.Britten and Auden, in the US to try to escape the war, originally thought they were writing a high-school operetta; but the 1941 premiere was given at Columbia University, and the work was withdrawn straight afterwards, re-emerging only in the 1970s. Auden\u2019s libretto couches pointed passages in swaths of archness. Britten\u2019s music assumes myriad stylistic guises, shrugging them on and off with seeming simplicity. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2018\/sep\/04\/paul-bunyan-review-eno-britten-wiltons-music-hall\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Bunyan review \u2013 a cross between Cunning Little Vixen and a TUC meeting<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wilton\u2019s Music Hall, LondonBritten and Auden\u2019s folklore opera might be barmy \u2013 with singing lumberjacks, a blue ox and a giant superhuman and unseen hero, but ENO has turned it into something genuinely worthwhileWhat on earth is Britten\u2019s Paul Bunyan? A satire on capitalism? A New World response to Soviet-style [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}