Firm support for Richard Wagner

Opera-going can be bad for your health. Especially if the composer is Richard Wagner and the opera is five hours long. "Prolonged sitting inhibits venous function, blood pools in the legs and they can swell. Also, the risk of thrombosis may increase, as in a long-haul flight"

So say Medi Gmbh, "one of the world's leading companies in the field of compression stocking supplies" and a sponsor of the Bayreuth Festival.

Those popsocks are a threat to more than good taste.

Comments

[SJT]

"the risk of thrombosis may increase, as in a long-haul flight"

If this were true, there'd surely be an awful lot of statistical evidence concerning the incidence of strokes, coronaries etc. peaking after any given
"Ring" cycle anywhere. Given its predilection for Wagner, half of Manhattan ought to have fetched up in intensive care on a calendrical basis directly relative to Met performances. And as for the burghers of Bayreuth, one would imagine the local Krankenhaus would have plenty of tales to tell of Tristan T.I.A.s and Parsifal palsy.

[Kassandra]

I was going to write something about how neither money nor power can get you a sense of style and elegance, but being gorgeous, glamorous and... Greek myself, I might be misunderstood...

[SJT]

Besides, you're cursed never to be believed anyway, so why bother?

[Kassandra]

It's a pity we didn't meet last summer in Salzburg...