hee hee, I'd be SO interested if someone did a study to find out how many calories, say, a 155 pound woman (I guess that's me) would burn doing the role of Octavian. Or Carmen, or Cherubino... with a traditional staging... not like anything minimalist where you just stand there (I saw a Parsifal like this once... it was just awful).. but the normal, expected drill.... and then compare it to a sporting event such as a basketball game.. I think the comparison would be very interesting.
If anyone has a bored scientist friend out there see if he's an opera fan.
Lauren
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