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[segh]

Again to Islington, for Fanciulla del West, or West End Girl - Puccini/Belasco transplanted to a seedy internet café populated by East European immigrants. I thought it worked really well - verismo, after all, should be set in the world we know, and as someone most of whose friends are immigrants, it got it pretty well. Our illustrious maestro

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[anonymous]

I misread Villain as violin, and imagined your illustrous maestro with his chin dug into his instrument and curling lip above. It's quite a good picture.
Bradshaw

[segh]

Like it! Actually, I think he plays the bassoon, which would be quite hard to do while curling the lip.