Opera director Oliver Mears chooses a classic anti-war painting: Goya’s ‘The 3rd of May 1808 in Madrid’.
Oliver Mears chooses The 3rd of May 1808 in Madrid by Goya
‘This painting is one of the most powerful expressions of human terror in the face of state brutality it is possible to imagine. For that reason alone, this painting was a revolutionary opera at a revolutionary time — a highly political work of art that rages against faceless inhumanity and suffers…
