Analyze Trump with opera plots?

[bobbieinok]

Have new tablet and have discovered opera on youtube. Many villains who drag others to destruction. Eg. Faust. Any opera fans with suggestions?

[shenmue]

1. Great idea!

[still_one]

2. Don Giovanni, but one without any redemtion, Scarpia in Tosca

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Someday, somebody will write an opera about Trump -

maybe Phillip Glass or John Adams. I can't think of any operas that fit exactly, but some are pretty creepy - Bartók's "Bluebeard's Castle," for example, and Leos Janacek's "The Makropulos Secret." John Adams wrote one called "Nixon in China," which wasn't about Watergate, unfortunately. I kind of like Claudio Monteverdi's "The Coronation of Poppea," in which the bad guys finally win (an unusual outcome for the 17th century). In Mozart's "Don Giovanni," the main character is dragged to hell. Opera is perfect for any situation involving flamboyant, lurid people, although most of them also involve sex and death. Those may yet come.