He [countertenor Anthony Roth Constanzo] also enjoys being the catalyst whereby opera fertilises other art forms: recently, he's collaborated with Japanese kabuki actors, and a project with dancers from New York City Ballet is in the offing.

'Surely one cannot go for long in this world to-day without at least a thought for St Simon Stylites?'

Another Southerner argued that commerce has no social illusions and that it would be commerce that would rid the region of this historic, red-handed, deformed, and swaggering villain.

Take heed, then, lest, while you plume yourselves on your superior wisdom and discrimination, the Great Captain does not arraign you before his court-martial on the charge of blood-guiltiness.