Do not go gently
WHO SAYS OPERA has no socially useful purpose? Why, it is only a few years since a Miami judge decimated crime simply by promising to make felons sit through Rigoletto with him in his chambers. And piping Mozart into bus shelters here has proved massively successful in driving away roustabouts — as well as the homeless, who would rather take their chances with the bootboys and the sleet, to the delight of the public-spirited everywhere.
The wider population might be amazed to learn that, a satirical pile of the most infarctual ingredients known to man), and in happier days enjoyed the guarantee that the comelier performers would be obliged to make themselves available for post-show gallivants.
