I recall as a thirteen year old hearing Butterfly in English on the radio. I was able to catch most of the words and it was magic completely turning me on to opera. I could not afford full opera sets but working for a local farmer gave me enough pocket money to save up for 10" LPs by Joan Hammond, Bjorling etc. I then used to buy complete libretti from EMI so I could follow the arias. They were cheap then and I always regretted the way record companies stopped making libretti available separately. I also seem to recall when I bought the mono Britten/Pears Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings that the words were only available as a separate purchase. Can anyone back me up in that? When I moved into cassette I used to insist record companies sent me the booklet or the sleeve of the LP if the texts were available there but not to cassette purchasers (quite common then). There was never any trouble getting them. Similarly, DGG actually shipped over for me the German gatefold sleeve to the Maazel L'enfant et les sortileges as the UK sleeve was different. Len