There is no escaping the symbolism of ‘the wall’ these days. For a generation brought up in the aftermath of the Second World War, the geopolitical landscape has been shaped by the Berlin Wall, Israel’s West Bank wall, and most recently Donald Trump’s notorious plan to build a wall between the US and Mexico.
At the end of the 1970s, the progressive rock band Pink Floyd tapped into the metaphor of the wall to represent the isolation and alienation of the individual in society. Band leader Roger Waters wove a narrative from 11 songs, inspired by events in his own life and that of Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd’s original front man. The resulting concept album, The Wall, tells the dysfunctional story of Pink, beginning with his desperately unhappy childhood and culminating as an adult in a failed marriage and a slow, self-imposed retreat from the world behind a wall.
By the early 1980s, The Wall had become one of the best-selling albums of all time, developing into an international sell-out stage show (much of which was performed behind a polystyrene wall), and an equally successful film starring Bob Geldof. Now, with Waters’ blessing, the story of Pink’s process of self-incarceration and ultimate liberation is being turned into an opera. Another Brick in the Wall is a new commission from the Opéra de Montréal and is scheduled to receive its world premiere in the Canadian city this March.
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