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To: Jules B. Garfunkel who wrote (42897)	11/28/1999 12:28:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

Jules, What an incredible experience! I envy you!! They left out the Gounod, which I like. There is a recording I would like to hear-- all the famous Ave Marias. We heard Evensong in Salisbury years ago, and it was unforgettable. We sat through all 4 1/2 hours of the Wagner last night. People were snoring all around us. I was proud that Ammo managed to stay awake. Heck, I was proud I did. Dan threatened to jump up on the stage and strangle Siegmund himself if he didn't shut up and die. He kept muttering, "I'm going to kill him. I'm going to kill him." Sieglinde was wonderfully Wagnerian in stature. At one point Siegmund falls to his knees and she clutches his head to her breasts and you REALLY worried if he would get up again, or just keel over suffocated, which would have been Dan's preference. Ammo asked after, "Why were all the Valkyrie so BIG?" The costumes were strange. The Valkyrie looked like the girlfriends of a biker gang. They were decked out in black leather and little helmets with their hair popping out of the top. Black leather on Michelle Pfeiffer is one thing, on Wagnerian sopranos, another altogether. Nope, some women should not wear black leather. Oh, and Ammo was thoroughly put out because poor Wotan tried to draw muscles on his arms in a useless attempt to look a little more Arnoldlike. "Why doesn't he just work out?" he said in disgust. "And lose a few pounds." I thought they were tattoos. To go with the black leather. I was pooh-poohed. The Ride was great-- they had huge horses flying across the stage with the Valkyrie on them. A lot of people left after that, though. Wagner has brilliant moments, but really he doesn't know when to quit. I haven't seen enough Wagner to know if this one's pace was especially slow, or they're all like that. We loved Das Reingold last year, which is much shorter. The next opera is Die Fledermaus, and should be more fun for Ammo, whose new love of opera was put to the test last night.