When you begin your morning with a text-message proposing a romantic weekend in New York, yet still find yourself in conversation, hours later, texting the query “you still have a bf?”, it’s time to dig the landed-line out from under all those old “Opera News’s” and dial 1-900-ELEANOR for professional help.

audio The Telephone Aria (from Gian-Carlo Menotti’s opera “The Telephone”). Eleanor Steber, soprano/telemarketer
I think I’ll compose an opera in one act with three characters: a man, a man, and a text-message.
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