From: "John Beamish" 

I'm practicing!  Just saw Die Walkure (2 weeks ago).


"Gene McAloon"  wrote in message
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> On Mon, 10 May 2004 09:51:05 -0400, "John Beamish"
 com> wrote:
>
> >Side note to Alan Cairns:  Valerie ordered the 2006 Ring Cycle tickets
last
> >night.  Non-refundable $40 to place the order plus, of course, the cost
of
> >the tickets (to be paid about a year before the opera is performed).
>
> If you are going to see all four of the operas in the cycle, presumably
you will
> be seeing them on four successive nights. Be warned that it can be a
physical
> ordeal. Those operas are long and the human bottom is not made for sitting
in a
> theater seat for such lengths of time.  It is not like sitting in the
comfort of
> your easy chair at home.
>
> To see the whole of the Ring performed requires a considerable degree of
> dedication to an art form most Verdians consider a travesty of the opera
art
> form. Where the Ring is concerned, I tend to agree with them.
>

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