I once asked Luciano Pavarotti what opera meant; the great tenor gave me a baffled look, but he answered that opera was not difficult to comprehend. Farmers played opera in barns to increase milk production. "Even cows understand opera." One wonders what cows would make of "Golden Age," Terrence McNally's backstage comedy set in 1835 [...]
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:39PM on December 9, 2012