Thursday, September 18, 2008  Jackass, The Opera  More lunacy in
the world of opera: Take It Off, Brünnhilde: On Opera and Nudity
Published: September 17, 2008  It had to happen. Nudity is
coming to opera.     Now, just think about this for a moment.
Pavarotti...Joan Sutherland...Cornell the nude. Do we really
want to add another criterion for success in opera - not a
beautiful voice, but a beautiful body? Why not just have
attractive actors and actresses lip-synch the music, as they did
in China for the Olympics?  I started getting a little crazed as
I read the article, to the point where all sorts of bad thoughts
began intruding upon my mind.  Knock. It. Off. If I can't even
READ about opera in the nude without being hit by a thousand
flying double-entendres, WATCHING it would be entirely out of
the question.  The discussion of nudity in film reminds me of a
funny incident from my schooldays. Every year, we studied a
Shakespeare play, and one year it was Macbeth. As an educational
treat, we went on a field