I see that Karanas is singing in Dialogues of the Carmelites in St. Louis this season. I'll have to mention that to family while I'm down there.

Ooh, good catch. You might be right. As I recall, it's not a particularly long opera either.

After Gurnemanz called him "the Black Knight", the old Russian woman who sits two rows back on my right just came out with the word "Nazis" at full conversational volume. Nothing more than that (though she's terrible about chatting sotto voce between curtain and the start of the singing).