The missing word

Writing about Schönberg's opera Moses und Aron, staged by Romeo Castellucci (Opéra National de Paris, Opéra Bastille, premiere: 20.10.2015), Tomasz Fryzeł focuses on the fundamental issue of the relationship between the idea, the mystic revelation, and religion, ideology, and politics. The author calls attention to the modernity of the staging. The performance is shown in the building of Paris's Opéra Bastille, situated in the vicinity of the January and November terrorist attacks, and it raises the issue of religious fanaticism, as well as being a voice in the discussion of refugees from the states of Northern Africa. The author also recalls Castellucci's controversies: a bull enclosed in a plexiglass cage appears on stage, provoking criticism.