Christopher Webber: >"Parsifal" is not an 'expression' of anything. The question of racial >superiority is undeniably part of its disturbing web and woof. In the >reality of the theatre - the most potent way to experience the opera - >the Grail Knights are often currently portrayed that way, so the image >must carry resonance for many. (The recent production at ENO in London >portrayed them as broken down First World War German soldiers, to >extremely powerful effect.) May this extremely powerful effect be laugh, perhaps?. I didn't see that production, but honestly, I can't think of anything more bizarre. That sort of neo-pagans looking for the Holy Graal with their gas masks, fumigating half Europe...? Robert Peters: >It is not essential to define love and sex to enjoy it. Let it be with >music like this, too. (In fact in both cases definition only cause harm.) No, of course. But talking about love and sex is an old and pleasant entertainment. I don't see the harm in defining love and music. Didn't Plato do it, while drinking and having fun with his friends?. Pablo Massa [log in to unmask]