Looks like Ann Patchett is onto something.īasically, dramatic situations (like, yes, being held hostage) bring out the extreme emotions humans are capable of. Which you can definitely make an argument for where hostage situations are concerned. Plus, when it comes down to it, opera is almost always about intense human emotions at their most dramatic. Movies like Mission Impossible-Rogue Nation and Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows show our heroes fighting terrorists during tense opera house scenes. Weird as it sounds at first, maybe opera and terrorism aren't such a strange combination. Her 2001 novel Bel Canto is about what happens when a pack of high-profile politicians and an opera singer get captured by terrorists at a party in an unnamed South American country. If you're thinking One of These Things is Not Like the Others, chances are most people would agree with you. The Magic Flute, La Boheme, The Marriage of Figaro, the Iran hostage crisis.
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