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Date sent: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 16:06:11 EST
Subject: Re: Was: Opera/Classical music too expensive? Now: Central Park
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In a message dated 1/20/00 9:41:49 AM Pacific Standard Time,
mezzo-soprano-at-mindspring.com writes:

<< What cracked me up was that whoever produced this for television felt that
a contemporary opera, sung in English REQUIRED SUBTITLES!!!!!!! English
subtitles! Did I mention that the opera was written and sung in English?


Last year I caught the Broadcast of Andre Previn's opera "A Streetcar Named
Desire" on PBS. It was the same thing, an opera sung in English with
subtitles. I also saw part of Central Park last night and had a good chuckle
at the subtitles.
>>

Unfortunately, without the subtitles you would not have understood what
was being sung by several of the lead characters.