In Spain, A Protest Opera Against Austerity

El crepusculo del ladrillo (“Twilight of the Brick”, alluding to the final opera of Wagner’s Ring cycle) “takes on Spain’s ongoing economic crisis, which started to unfold in 2008 after the country’s real estate bubble burst. The story involves a village seduced into property ownership and consumerism before imploding in chaos. Despite the tragic subject matter, the tone is surrealist and often comic.”