[This caption by Kernita Makilla replaces La Cieca’s much inferior “psst… sandbag… SANDBAG!”  The photograph by Ken Howard is of Christopher Feigum as Figaro, James Westman as Beaumarchais, and Dorothy Byrne as Susanna in Opera Theatre of Saint Louis’s 2009 production of The Ghosts of Versailles by John Corigliano and William “It’s because I’m gay, isn’t it?” Hoffman.]