Re: thought for the week of August 29, 1999

On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Peter Groves <peter.groves[_at_]virgin.net> wrote:
>
> I can't resist adding (with apologies to those who have heard this
> before) that it was, I think, of Parsifal (though it might have
> been Lohengrin) that someone said it's one of those opera's that
> is so long, performances have to start at 5 o'clock, and after the
> first three hours you look at your watch and it's 5.30...

Can't verify that but Mark Twain once said that Wagner is better than he sounds.

Carol Cricow
<carol[_at_]yujean.com>

"One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives." Mark Twain Received on Thu Sep 02 1999 - 15:50:56 GMT