To paraphrase Anna Russell's words
    "The nice thing about operas is that you can get away
with almost anything, just so long as you sing it."

She actually has a very very very funny monologue in which
she recounts the entire Ring Cycle in 20 minutes.

Whew!

John

P.S. Not that I would complain about spending a week in Bayreuth.

> From: Alan Kay <Alan.Kay at disney.com>
> Reply-To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 09:35:14 -0800
> To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> Subject: Re: Native GUI Squeak?
> Resent-From: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> Resent-Date: 22 Feb 2001 17:36:24 -0000
> 
> Well, some operas are tragedies!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Alan
> 
> ------
> 
> At 11:57 AM -0500 2/22/01, Lex Spoon wrote:
>> Alan Kay <Alan.Kay at disney.com> wrote:
>>> As a musician, I believe that the thing to do with children in music
>>> is make sure they have fun getting fluent, whether they have a deep
>>> early calling, whether it is social fun, or whether they are a
>>> character in their internal opera.
>> 
>> And what about all those big kids who have operas involving MS Windows
>> windows?  Heeeeee!
>> 
>> 
>> -Lex
>