Not enough Candide

La Scala theater, the most important opera house in the world, cancelled the Bernstein's Candide that was scheduled to take place on June 2007. The reason is related to an allegoric scene inserted by the director Carsen in which Bush, Blair, Putin, Chirac and Berlusconi dance naked (with pants indeed) on a lake of oil. Well, perhaps who cancelled the show thinks that Berlusconi could not be represented in human shape as well as some gods , anyway this episode causes the unpleasant feeling that Italy is still the same old unchangeable country where a sneaking censorship defends the power, where the preservation of privileges is a basis for the society.