In other news, Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead

If you like Opera and hate Twitter (and really hate people who tweet about opera) then this is required reading.

Look, dude, the plot of the opera, and the fact that it includes singing, are pretty well established. They do not require on-the-scene reporting. If, in the third act, Brünnhilde and Wotan ended up talking it out and going to a father-daughter picnic instead of the whole “imprisoned in a ring of flame” denouement, that would’ve been tweetworthy. A summary of the same storyline the opera’s had for the past 140 years of performances? A link to the libretto really would have done the job.

Via Gettoputer's ex-girlfriend, Megan McArdle. Although it's the unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable.