Jay: Enjoyed your Impromptu on the unfortunate bit of editing in that opera

review.

Let us not forget that this year marks the 100th anniversary of another

operatic scandal, the Met’s 1904 production of Parsifal, in which the kiss

between Kundry and Parsifal in Act II lasted 45 seconds. Critic Eleanor

Franklin called the performance “profanity, sacrilege, blasphemy, and a

gigantic outrage.” Good thing she didn’t live to see Janet Jackson.