Or the opposite. How to write operas plagiarizing fiction[1]… Do you believe the opera is something old fashioned? Is it boring and expensive? Impossible to understand a snail what the bloody heck is being sang? Yep, yep and yep. It ain’t as modern as musicals. It is expensive to go; in Mexico the opera programmes are offered only in the Auditorium and only to watch re-runs from the New York MET.  Stuff sang in long intervals is difficult to understand… specially if you don’t happen to spit in French or German. Above it all, if they’re modernized, they end up being even more incomprehensible.  Why would one want to sit…