Your organization employs one of the finest choruses working in opera today. You also have new chorus director, who is probably eager to crawl out from under Donald Palumbo’s shadow. It has also come to our attention that you are seeking operas with “rich, melodic scores.”

Might I suggest Karol Szymanowski’s Król Roger? Just imagine your chorus belting out these chords:

This Sicilian-Polish-Chrisitan-Pagan fantasia has enough Orientalism to keep the blue-haired ladies happy, and ample homoeroticism for the rest of us.

I implore you—think of the chorus!

In anticipation of the Met’s forthcoming season announcement, this month’s Talk of the Town theme switches from Favorite Mozart performances to Operas cher public would like to see the Met present