Donald Satz wrote:

>For me, it's the music that counts, and many composers have written
>masterful music to the librettos they had to work with: Verdi, Puccini,
>Handel, Mozart, Berg, Rossini, Donizetti, etc.  The world of classical
>music would be greatly diminished if the opera form had never been
>utilized.

Nobody could really "take a fence" @ some of handel's or Bononcini's London
Nonsense Operas - i play chunks of "Susannah" as I read B4 "nodding off".
& what about the Beecham reworkings and the Mozart "Improvements"??

Bill(Y).