“It may have been Robert A. Heinlein or Napoleon Bonaparte who first crafted that variation on Occam’s Razor ‘Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.’ But whoever said it, in whatever century and in whatever language, it certainly seems to apply to the fiasco that is the Deutsche Oper am Rhein’s Tannhäuser.” Our Own JJ (not pictured) is pondering again over at Rough and Regie.