Students said that 'due to the current sensitive political situation and unfortunate escalation of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and Israel' the 18th century concert piece will no longer be performed.
Has YOUR university cancelled events because of the war in the Middle East?Cambridge University's opera society is facing a backlash after it cancelled performances of Handel's Saul over the 'striking' parallels it has with the ongoing crisis in the Middle East.
In one section of the classic tale, David kills Goliath from the Philistines - the people who lived in the modern day Gaza strip 3,000 years ago and inspired the name Palestine. Max Mason, director of the show, added: 'Given the parallels of this conflict, the production team made the difficult decision to cancel Saul.
Also reacting to the cancellation, Professor David Albulafia, a historian at Gonville and Caius college, told the Telegraph that the Philistines were more likely to have been Mycenaean Greeks rather than modern Palestinians. He told the paper he thought the opera were 'being over-cautious' while an unnamed English composer was said to have expressed 'puzzlement' at the decision.
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