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I took today Ça Ira at work and gave to is a second listening, hoping that I will warm up to the opera. I have a phenomenally good headphone listening system at my work.

Listening the Ça Ira again I understand deeper what I did not like in his opera, in fact I would refuse to call it an opera but a Broadway-style oratorio, not even an oratorio but rather just a musical. I think Roger water made big disservice to himself by calling it opera… I guess as a musical the Ça Ira is fine, the aplomb of the plot a bit annoying though….

What I know about the French Revolution suggest me that nature of the Ça Ira has very little to do with it. In my perception Roger Waters wrote British musical about French Revolution but I would like the work have more French aroma.  It has absolutely no French smell and it has nothing to do with language. The harmonies and the phasing that Waters uses are very British and listing the Ça Ira I feel that I am listening the Ravi Shankar accompanimenting himself with sitar and singing a Brazilian telephone book. I wonder what French people feel about this music.

I also was very distracted with a big amount of cheap audio effects and banal stamps that they put in this recording, but perhaps I demand too much… Anyhow, The Wall was more elegant and well-dressed musical then the Ça Ira…

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