[tim]

I subscribe to Lyric Opera of Chicago. It's a great experience and something of a bargain, considering the relatively low cost I pay for a series of eight works, annually. There are a lot of great clown type characters in the opera, also. Truly, we need to work to bring our cultural and arts sensibility up a level. Or maybe just to make the "high arts" more accessible to the common people. Shakespeare used to be considered quite the plebian thing, afterall.