In Poul Anderson's "How To Be Ethnic In One Easy Lesson," which opera is appropriate for the Festival of Man? The Opera Company board decrees that:
Carmen is too spatiotemporally parochial;
Alpha of the Centaur is about space travel whereas the Festival needs pre-space travel input;
La Traviata is too unvisual;
Gotterdamerung is mythically significant and visual but a modern audience would require realistic effects that would distract from the live performers.
However, Adzel resembles Fafner and sings well.
Solution: allow this alien visitor to express his appreciation of Terrestrial culture and thus to glorify humanity by getting Adzel to play Fafner! Unexpected yet appropriate.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I've also thought that by having Adzel paly Fafnir, that would LESSEN the whiff of xenophobia I agree could be sniffed in the Festival of Man.
Sean
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