heard a news commentary on NPR about a new production of Beethoven's Fidelio in DC theatre. So i dig out this old article . Even if the music remains true to its score, the message may very well change by the time we choose to stage the play and by the way the director chooses to cloak the stage. "Art is a lie to help us sense the truth". What has been said is never going to be true. Free speech and free software must be understood with the same insight.