oh, lordy, good question q. depends on which part of it we're going examine. easiest way to start examining it is to say imagine that you were a singer or a conductor or an instrumentalist who was 30 or 40 or 20 or 50 years old when the premier of the last verdi operas came and verdi died in 1901. now, there were people who heard him, people who studied with him people who studied with the generation of the people who signed him and little by little there were two world wars, there was the jet plane flying people around where their brains could go but their bodies couldn't go that fast and there was some problem with that and gradually the teachers thinned out and so it wasn't -- i mean, it was bound generationly to become diffused and at the moment if you go to the opera the best performances you hear are likely to be of relatively contemporary operas or newish operas and relatively old ones. broke ones -- baroque ones, mozart, that sort of thing. that's because the old ones have gotten old enough that we can reinvent the way we do them without it worrying pe

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