O happy canard

“There are so many neglected operas like Antony and Cleopatra or Les Huguenots that have been treated so unfairly by history (or the public, or critics, or Political Correctness or whatever), when all they need is just five million dollars worth of production and six or seven of the world’s greatest and most expensive singers, and, lo and behold, everyone would instantly and unanimously recognize them as the towering masterpieces they really are. And why doesn’t anyone ever ask Renée Fleming to do Damrosch’s The Man Without a Country? I would go see it.”