life imitates fiction
Jan. 2nd, 2008 12:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
topazIn the late 1970s and early 1980s, Werner Herzog filmed Fitzcarraldo, a fascinating and bizarre film about an opera-obsessed entrepreneur with a mad scheme to build an opera house in the jungle and bring Enrico Caruso to sing.
Today, I read about Nueva Germania, a near-forgotten colony founded over a hundred years ago by Aryan emigrants to Paraguay. An Wagner-obsessed entrepreneur in San Francisco has taken up its cause and is seeking philanthropic aid to build an opera house for the community.
I have an uneasy feeling that somewhere, someone lost a bet of terrible, terrible proportions.
Today, I read about Nueva Germania, a near-forgotten colony founded over a hundred years ago by Aryan emigrants to Paraguay. An Wagner-obsessed entrepreneur in San Francisco has taken up its cause and is seeking philanthropic aid to build an opera house for the community.
I have an uneasy feeling that somewhere, someone lost a bet of terrible, terrible proportions.
