Before retiring for the season (because the Met broadcasts start next week, and not because of those rumors of “vocal crises”) our own Betsy (pictured) was quoted as saying, “Haiku, huh?  Pretty high-falutin’, if ya ask me.  I am but a simple, voluptuous frontier maiden who gets her jollies by reading Bible stories to a roomful of lustful miners.”

9:00-3:30 RADIO 4 NETHERLANDS: And many flowers did entice PARSIFAL to cross-pollinate, but he laid not his pistil down.  ‘Cause he was Klaus Florian Vogt, that’s why.

11:00-2:00 LRT KLASIKA: Evil are thy ways, o LUCREZIA BORGIA, and thy end is nigh.  Or maybe nigh-and-a-half.

12:00-4:15 DWOJKA POLSKIE, also RADIO CLASICA DE ESPANA at 1:00: Woe betide thee also, DONG IOVANNI, and the flames of hell shall rise up upon thee.

1:00-5:00 CBC TWO: Look not upon the flesh of the young, for thy DEATH IN VENICE is just around the corner.

1:00-6:00 CESKY ROZHLAS VLTAVA: And shalt thou also DIE, MEISTERSINGER?  Yea, it is foretold.

1:00-4:00 DEUTSCHLANDRADIO KULTUR: They that LES TROYENS shall rise up with Didos in their fidos.

1:00-5:00 KBYU: “Are you a dante?”  “Yea, Lord, I are.”

1:00-5:00 KOHM and several others: And the stones of MAHAGONNY shall topple into the sea.

1:00-5:00 KUHF and others: And it came to pass in those days that there went out a decree from ELMER GANTRY that the collection baskets should be full to overflowing.

1:00-5:00 RTP ANTENA 2: And Gluck begat IPHIGENIA IN TAURIS, and then he begat IPHIGENIA IN AULIDE, and then he begat some other stuff.

1:00-5:00 VPR CLASSICAL: Because thou didst not heed the warning to Lucrezia and Dong, which was given to thee by the prophets, then THE DAMNATION OF FAUST shall befall thee also.

1:00-6:00 WCNY and others: And there shall come a knight riding a swan upon the waters of many nations and though his name be LOHENGRIN, thou mayest call him Jonas.

1:00-5:30 WETA: And the lion shall lie down with the lamb and the donkey with the shoat.

1:00-5:00 WOSU: There is a Ballo in Maschera, to heal the sin-sick soul.

1:00-5:00 WRTI: Canst thou read the writing on the wall?  Dost it say XERXES?  But this thy site is not to be trusted, and thou mayest Billy up thy Budd for many days.

1:30-4:00 BARTOK RADIO: When LODOISKA was king in Sumeria, a plague of coloratura came upon the land and many were sore afraid, and sore of throat as well.

1:30-5:30 FRANCE MUSIQUE: Of the flesh of MATHIS DER MALER shalt thou not then eat, lest thou partake of lead-based paint.

1:30-5:00 BBC3: O tell o it on the mountains, over the hill and everywhere.  Followed by Michael row the ssini ashore.

1:30-4:00 NRK P2: Lay not your trust in the word of queens, o ROBERTO DEVEREUX, nor shalt thou lay queens at thy word.

2:00-6:00 HR2 KULTUR: Render unto AGRIPPINA the things that are Agrippina’s, which is pretty damn near everything.

2:00-5:00 RADIO STEPHANSDOM: Six days shalt thou enzi, and on the seventh thou shalt Re-enzi.

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