Opera Punishment

[Avery Todd]

List,

    Maybe some of you might want to pass this on to your Opera Dept.
and/or administrators. :-)

Avery (Sorry, sort of off-topic)


WHAT ARIA LEARNING IN SCHOOL? Sentencing young offenders to listen to
music they don't like seems to be catching on [This is True, 16 April
00], so Eastern Connecticut State University in Hartford decided to try
the tactic with students who break campus rules. But the punishment
doesn't seem to be working out the way administrators intended. "It was
awesome," sophomore Kevin Bochiccio, 19, said about the production of
Tosca he was sentenced to attend for having beer in his dorm. "I loved
the show," agreed another student. "It's definitely not punishment.
It's a privilege." At least one student in the audience was there
voluntarily -- he so enjoyed his sentence to watch The Magic Flute last
semester that he now goes to the opera regularly. (AP) ...You better
shape up, young man, or it'll be season tickets for you!