Pablo Massa wrote: >Mats Norrman <[log in to unmask]>: > >>Then opera is about love (is Boris Godunov the only opera without >>a love szene?) > >Interesting question. "Cavalleria Rusticana", "Billy Budd"?. Love has >obviously much to do at Orpheus myth, but there's no love scene (properly >speaking) at Monteverdi's "L'Orfeo" and, if I don't remember bad, at >Gluck's "Orfeo et Euridice". There must be more examples. Next point: >a discussion on what a love scene is "properly speaking":-) There's really no love scene as we usually understand it in *Tannhaeuser*. Or *Rheingold* or *Moses and Aron*. I don't remember, but I don't think there's one in *Wozzeck* either. Walter Meyer '48