Janos Gereben wrote:

>A few months back, I heard Mark Spencer as Mary Sunshine in `Chicago' and
>wrote: here's a fine Turandot -- a *male soprano*, not a countertenor or
>male alto.
>
>Behold, as of today, there is a better prospect yet: he is being considered
>for Octavian in a major-house `Rosenkavalier'! Now wouldn't it give
>`trouser role' a whole new twist? And it would *sound* new too.

It sort of completes the four possibilities.

1.  Men acting or singing women's roles, as in ancidnt Greek plays,
Shakespeare, and Chinese Opera, inter alia.

2.  Women singing or acting women's roles, as we are used to seeing now.

3.  Women singing men's roles, as in Mozar and Richard Strauss, among others.

4.  And now that daring breakthrough, men singing men's roles.

Walter Meyer