Julia Werthimer wrote:

>The trouble is that OPERA-L is too damned much: it is full of people
>advocating this or that singer and quarreling over adherences.

I've never subscribed to OPERA-L, but if it is anything like
"wreck.music.opera", then we have deprived ourselves of numerous flamewars,
hurled invectives, and generally nasty behavior that looks like operatic
quarrels "in virtuo"....

Bill H.