25 reasons to remain CONFINED

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU

Don’t believe you have to go to Paris, to the Old Opéra Garnier, to meet this Phantom. You can meet him in your living room, or even your kitchen, why not your bathroom. You can even be that phantom in your own home, but you have to bring the opera in your sitting room, drawing room, withdrawing room, or parlor, with cookies and tea, coffee, and brandy. Be aware that Detective William Murphy from Toronto finds coffee a lit bit bitter.

Two years ago, everyone would have told you it was impossible. What is supposed to be evanescent on a stage cannot and must not be watched over and over again in five or ten or even twenty various productions from all around the world “The evanescent has to remain evanescent,” the effete members of the cultivated jungle used to say, and strangely enough they still effetely say so. Once an effete Tarzoon, always an effete Tarzoon, though once a knight is enough.

It only took eighteen months of a pandemic for people to realize that they could have at the tip of their fingers on their remote control all the operas they wanted for something like…