Sir Peter Maxwell Davies began work on his parodic opera Resurrection while studying at Princeton in the early 1960s, finishing it some two decades later....

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies began work on his parodic opera Resurrection while studying at Princeton in the early 1960s, finishing it some two decades later. Its violent diversity takes aim at a series of targets (state, church and media) and is expressed in a dazzling but masque-like succession of scenes, and through the blackly comic pastiche of hymn tunes, marching bands, saccharine waltzes, and banal T.V. advertisements.