[TrueKnightGalahad]

I love opera, but I can also laugh at some of the silliness. Some dialogue from an hilarious episode of Frasier perfectly captures Rigoletto:

Frasier: Well, it's about Rigoletto, the hunchbacked jester in the court of the Duke. He has a daughter, Guilder, who's secretly living with him. But everyone thinks that she's his mistress. In this opening scene, Rigoletto mocks the Duke's enemy, who puts a curse on him.

Martin: A cursed hunchback dating his daughter - well, nothing screwy so far!

[Emperor Palpatine]

I love Wagner, but also get huge laughs from both Anna Russell AND one of the greatest of the Warner Brothers cartoons...."What's Opera, Doc?"



Its gotten to the point that every time I hear "The Ride" I think of Elmer Fudd as Siegfried singing "Kill the Wabbit! Kill the Wabbit"!