Bob Draper writes:

>My aim has not been to upset any Mozart fans.  Rather to show that other
>views exist, in spite of the fact that expressing them is viewed by some
>as sacrilege.

Trouble is, Bob, it does have precisely this negative effect - a bit like
telling somebody you think their child is ugly.

The fact that it is only the assertion of your opinion doesn't make it any
less hurtful or destructive - perhaps the reverse, here, as you claim a
kind of naive innocence in justification of your right to come out with it.

By the way, I'm glad you like "Oberon", but sorry you take the
penny-in-the-slot liner-note posture and fail to give credit to Planche's
perfectly good libretto in the English semi-opera tradition, one which
focussed Weber's mind sufficiently to enable him to write some
fantastically memorable music.

Christopher Webber,  Blackheath, London,  UK.
http://www.nashwan.demon.co.uk/zarzuela.htm
"ZARZUELA!"