Rosemary Ceravolo wrote:

>How about getting the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld Trinity to cough up the extra
>$4 million out of their own deep pockets or from the billions approved
>for their Iraq Operatics?  But it's not likely that any of them have
>ever heard of the Sat.  matinee broadcasts from the Met in the first
>place.

It would be interesting to count up the famous opera characters who would
be for such liberation, and which would not.

John Smyth
Sacramento, CA