Ken MacLeod‘s novel Newton’s Wake features a character living on a distant world in a post-Singularity future who writes operas based on badly remembered and misunderstood history. This gives us classics like The Tragedy of Leonid Brezhnev with gun-toting communist leaders denouncing each other as revisionists in song.
It only comes to mind because Conservative Home seem to be pitching a similar idea, perhaps as a dramatic counterpoint from the same era:
In the Falklands Margaret Thatcher led our armed forces to a great victory.
I’m thinking it’d have to be in a pseudo-Wagnerian style to really work and depicting the scene where she storms the beaches at the head of the Task Force will prove a tough job for the director and set designer, but it is opera, and no one really goes there expecting too much realism.
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I understand she also invented the mobile phone.
She then went on to inspire the new utility companies to instigate the programmes for exceptional customer service for which they continue to be so admired. before completing her mission by (using no more than calm rationality and quiet persuasion) convincing the nation that its economic and political wellbeing would be assured by total commitment to a future in the financial services industry.
If only Prokoviev or Shostakovich were still available to do justice to these heroic achievements.