[Tax-chick]

Houston was like that, too. I was with a friend who has Chronic Lateness, and we had to watch the first act of “Turandot” on a monitor in the lobby.

However, during Wagner’s lifetime, the Parisian upper crust would arrive at the opera late - or so my dear old professor said, and he was nearly old enough to have been there!

[ml/nj]

My experience with Wagner has been that people leave early! Parsifal was the only opera I ever left before it was over, but I think half the house left before I did. It really took me a long time to appreciate Wagner. I still haven't done the Ring but I would like to sometime.

ML/NJ