Edgar Beach: >A wonderful gothic story, and some of the most beautiful aria's in American >Opera (IMO). And so I listen over and over to the only recording of this >opera that I know is available: Dimitri Mitropoulos conducting and Eleanor >Steber and Rosalind Elias in the lead roles. ... Do I hope in vain for >a new recording? Probably, but never say die! I think there are good things in Vanessa, but for me the story is just too damn silly. Menotti sometimes has that effect on me. Steve Schwartz