Hundred Years -- Painting Destroyed: Caravaggio -- Berlioz Killed an Opera in His Head -- Down -- To a

for an essay, and a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship in translation. Her opera WET

father's world. In the South, “lard sizzles a sermon from the stove"; in Chicago, we feast on an “opera of

Mountain and the Maiden -- Night at the Opera -- What the Rains Bring -- A Dream -- America, a Challenge to

Ring -- A Night at the Opera -- The Notebook -- The Immortals -- The Visitor from the Future -- When

described Cassity's work as "an opera house in the jungle." True so far as it goes, but he might also have