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Randall Behr wrote:
>Regarding Ewing's Salome: Ragnar Ulfung, the Herod in the 1989 Los Angeles
>Opera production, said that by the sixth veil the auditorium looked like a
>fly's eye, with 3300 pairs of binoculars trained upon her brightly backlit
>form. (Though I conducted those performances, I never got to actually see
>the event. She didn't do the full monty at the dress rehearsals, and I
>feared that if I even so much as glanced at the stage at that moment during
>a performance, I'd never, ever get the orchestra's attention back. They
>threatened to install periscopes...)
My colleague's restraint in this situation suggests the definition of a
true music-lover [male]; a gentleman who upon being told that a lovely
opera singer is vocalizing, undressed, in an adjoining room, puts his ear
rather than his eye to the keyhole...
Joel Lazar
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