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