Birtwistle's Punch and Judy arrived at a crucial moment for new opera. It premièred in 1968 at the Aldeburgh Festival, the home of a vision of British opera that Punch and Judy seemed actively to confront. However, Punch and Judy also engaged closely with operatic traditions and institutions, and while its Aldeburgh première is remembered as a scandalous provocation, a closer look at this event suggests that the opera was welcomed as a subtle intervention into the British operatic scene rather than a repudiation of it. The opera itself, moreover, performs a similar sense of revolt as inseparable from tradition, of individuality as inseparable from institutions and audiences, and of the supports for artistic production as necessarily also constraints.

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面对 1960 年代的歌剧：Birtwistle 的 Punch 和 Judy

鸟巢潘趣和朱迪到了新歌剧的关键时刻。它于 1968 年在奥尔德堡音乐节上首演，这是英国歌剧愿景的发源地潘趣和朱迪似乎积极面对。然而，潘趣和朱迪还与歌剧传统和机构密切相关，虽然它的奥尔德堡首演被认为是一种可耻的挑衅，但仔细观察这一事件表明，这部歌剧受到了欢迎，因为它是对英国歌剧舞台的一种微妙干预，而不是对它的否定。此外，歌剧本身也表现出与传统密不可分的反叛感，与机构和观众密不可分的个性，以及对艺术生产的支持也必然是制约因素。