Steve Schwartz responds to Mitch Friedfeld: >>It's funny, but I've never been able to get into Puccini's one-act-*only* >>operas, Il Trittico. > >Not even Gianni Schicchi? > >Grinch! Guilty. Gianni Schicchi is the only Puccini opera I don't like. I love Il Tabarro and Sister Angelica. Can't do bests that well. "Best" single act: Tosca II; Turandot I Most amazing: Boheme II. Most dramatic scenes in no particular order: Card game in Fanciulla; Scarpia's entrance; Tosca Te Deum; whatever the term is for the march of the prisoners to the ship in Manon Lescaut; Better stop before I get rolling. Roger Hecht