On 9 Feb 2005 at 11:04, Raymond Horton wrote:

> In regards to _The Magic Flute_, the background info is interesting,
> but not necessary to enjoying the opera.  The opera is, start to
> finish, some of the most divinely inspired music ever penned by a
> human being, regardless of the story it is hung on.  (To see you
> dismiss it as " a not very good opera" makes me sad for you, David. 
> You should get to hear it from the opera pit like I do, waiting for
> the priests to come onstage so the trombones finally play.  Wonderful
> music to experience, every night.) 

I very clearly said:

Not very good opera.

Brilliant music.

In other words, as an opera, less than the sum of its parts.

-- 
David W. Fenton                        http://www.bway.net/~dfenton
David Fenton Associates                http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc

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