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From: milne@uci-icse
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Subject: space "operas"
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Date: Wed, 22-May-85 04:06:49 EDT
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From: Alastair Milne <milne@uci-icse>


  Would somebody please have pity and tell me what a space "opera" is supposed
  to be?  The only space opera I've ever heard of is "Aniara", by Blomdahl,
  and that because it was on the same record with the "2001" soundtrack.  I
  trust it is not Wagner's Valhalla elevated to literally heavenly heights, or
  Verdi or Donezetti re-staged with Saturn's rings as a backdrop.

  Acknowledging, then, that it probably has nothing to do with real opera, 
  what is it?

  Thanks,
  Alastair Milne