Walter Meyer: >Prokofiev's ballet setting of *Romeo and Juliet* and Verdi's operatic >setting of *Ot(h)ello* are the only instances I can think of where the >new setting lives up artistically to the grand work on which it's based. I can think of a couple more: Vaughan Williams's Sir John in Love (MUCH finer than Verdi's Falstaff) and Bloch's Macbeth, according to Andrew Porter, THE greatest opera based on a Shakespearean play. I finally heard it on CD (and will review it). While I have problems assigning "the greatest" to anything, I wouldn't be outraged at Porter's opinion either. Steve Schwartz