Walter Meyer wrote:

>Roger Hecht wrote:
>
>>I had the pleasure of playing in the orchestra for this opera, and I
>>enjoyed the experience very much.  I also enjoyed it the one time I saw it
>>from the audience.  For me this opera works very well on stage.  Indeed, I
>>was told that Miller once said the play was better than his opera.
>
>Which would not surprise me.  Did Roger mean that "Miller once said the
opera was better than his play"?
>
I know my posts are filled with typos. (I'm fast: not always good. Good
costs extra.) But I had to read this one three times before I caught on.

I don't know if the slip was Freudian or not, but yes, the way I heard it
was that Miller thought the opera was better than the play.

Roger Hecht