Singer-stage director-Festival Opera artistic director Olivia Stapp *never* criticizes her colleagues, but - bless her - she blew a gasket at the San Francisco Opera Center's EuroTrashy "La Finta" - "The stage director of San Francisco Opera Center's La Finta Giardiniera, Roy Rallo, assures us in his program notes that the eighteen-year-old Mozart and his librettist `quite successfully explore the nature of sadism, self hatred, murderous jealousy and downright insanity, alongside the more conventional expressions of affection, and freely mix the comic with the macabre.' Who knew?" ... See www.sfcv.org Janos Gereben/SF [log in to unmask]