Lite Opera

Cost-cutting for the San Francisco Opera has been in the news. Herewith, in the spirit of the great "flea-dipping" opera list* of '94, are some great repertoire suggestions for any impecunious opera company:       (*-scroll down to "Fleas")

The Ha'penny Opera
The Reduction of the Seraglio
The Two of Spades
Nixon in Chinatown
The Elopement of Figaro
The Love for One Orange
Costco
Billy Budget or Billy Bud Light
poOrfeo
Debt in Venice
Hemi-Demi-Semiramide
Vot Check?
Debt Man Knocking
I Owe Lanthe
Motello
The Ballad of Borrowed Dough
Judas Back-a-pay-us
Lucia di Lammermoor-or-less
Loan-Grim
Manon Lessdough
Madame I-Can't-Believe-it's-not Butterfly
The Repo of Ulysses
Das Rhinestone
The Magic Piccolo
The Bargain Bride
Payless et Melisande
Spamson
The Flying Scotsman
Rigo-Less-o
The Debt of Klinghoffer
Poor-is Good-enough
The Italian Girl in Arrears
The Love of Two Kings
L'Bankruptzione di Poppea
Le Coq d'Styrofoam
Gianni Skimpy

NOTE : Written by Maestro Nic McGegan and forwarded by Super David Norton. Also, if anyone has an entry or two to add, please send the editor your suggestion(s).

Alan Gandolfi, a chorister with the New Orleans Opera, found our site and contributed his own additions. Thanks, Alan!:

• Schlockme (Lakmé)
• The Barber of Swill
• Bluebeard's Hovel
• Ill Trovatore
• Die Frau Ohne Schitten
• Don Crappo
• L'Elisir d'amnPoor,Eh?
• Partly, at Best   (Porgy and Bess)
• Girl of the Golden Worst
•  Der Ring des Nickelodeon, consisting of the complete cycle:
• Das RheinGoldplated
• Die WoeIsMe
• Siegfried (he works cheap now that Roy is out of action), and
• GotterDamnerShame