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Aida's flutes
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After years spent reflecting on Western imperial practices, critic Edward
Said wrote that Giuseppe Verdi's Aida is ‘a kind of curatorial art’,
a workwhose rigorous and unbending frame recall[s], with relentless mortuary logic, a precise
historical moment and a specifically dated aesthetic form, an imperial spectacle designed to
alienate and impress an almost exclusively European audience.
Title: Aida's flutes
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After years spent reflecting on Western imperial practices, critic Edward
Said wrote that Giuseppe Verdi's Aida is ‘a kind of curatorial art’,
a workwhose rigorous and unbending frame recall[s], with relentless mortuary logic, a precise
historical moment and a specifically dated aesthetic form, an imperial spectacle designed to
alienate and impress an almost exclusively European audience.
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