Regarding the mysterious voyeur in Las Meninas, could he be involved in a conspiracy of betrayal? A plot to overthrow the monarchy during a moment of vulnerability and, in it's place, substitute tyranny and opression?

We wonder this as we enter the chaotic room of dictatorship and revolution.

The dissonance of Alfred Schnittke's music reminds us of a legacy of pain and struggle from totalitarian regimes. Schnittke, himself, employs a style of composition that breaks free of tastes dictated by the Soviet state as well as academia.