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English National Opera's new season includes controversial Disney story

Fictionalised account of animator's life, one of nine new productions and six revivals to be staged by the company, will depict Walt Disney as racist and misogynistA new work by Philip Glass about Walt Disney will have its UK premiere at English National Opera (ENO) in June 2013. Glass's opera – his 24th – is based on Peter Stephan Jungk's 2004 novel The Perfect American, a fictionalised account of the final years of Walt Disney's life, described by Glass as "unimaginable, alarming and truly...

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15:22 on April 24 2012

English National Opera's new season includes controversial Disney story

Guardian Music — Fictionalised account of animator's life, one of nine new productions and six revivals to be staged by the company, will depict Walt Disney as racist and misogynistA new ... more info