Henny van der Groep to Pablo Massa:

>>Interesting question.  "Cavalleria Rusticana", "Billy Budd"?.  Love has
>>obviously much to do at Orpheus myth, but there's no love scene (properly
>>speaking) at Monteverdi's "L'Orfeo" and, if I don't remember bad, at
>>Gluck's "Orfeo et Euridice".  There must be more examples.  Next point:
>>a discussion on what a love scene is "properly speaking":-)
>
>According the musicologist Tarushkin Mussorgsky was gay.

That's funny.  Musicologists tracing sexual profiles?.  Sounds like
engineers researching on the oedipus complex.  However, Tchaikowsky was
gay and he wrote great (heterosexual) love scenes in opera (the Pike Dame,
for example), and not in opera (Romeo and Juliet).

Pablo Massa
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