Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.

-Gian Carlo Menotti

(I coached, with wonderful help from Sara Hancock—thanks, Sara!—, some of the orchestra members who will be playing in The Consul. UCSC will be putting this opera on at the end of the quarter. Click here for info.)

UCSC … doesn’t this make you envious? I teach here!