Brian Donaghey wrote:
> >> Well, John, we might have done if we thought it was going to be about the
> >> Theophilus who was a kind of medieval proto-Dr Faustus--and the special
> >> effects as he worked miracles and was then dragged off to hell were
> >> spectacular enough!
and John Parsons added:
> But wasn't he saved by the intervention of the BVM? At least isn't that
> the version carved on one of the Notre-Dame portals in Paris?
What a spendid Mozart opera that would make: a combination of
Magic Flute and Don Giovanni, with a touch of Figaro thrown in.
Wherever he is now, Mozart's librettist Da Ponte must be kicking
himself that he didn't think of it :-)
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