Lorin Maazel’s opera version of Orwell’s “1984” has its German premiere in Regensburg – gripping, dramatic, disturbing.
In the end, the “Big Brother” proclaims mankind’s greatest victory in the war of Oceania against East Asia and all pain is forgotten, but love is also in the past, as if it had never existed. “1984” by George Orwell, published in 1949, ends with an indifference worse than any previous torture, brainwashing and mutual betrayal.