I think this idea could run and run, and would certainly make a nice change from the repertoire warhorses being constantly trotted out, although it might be as well to keep it as a hobby for now, or at least to hold some wild horses in reserve to drag in listeners who might shy at the prospect. For those of us whose tastes are less blinkered, it sounds like a dead cert. May I be first past the post to suggest that you seriously consider for inclusion the stage works of Cavalli, which are economically scored (the brass section represented only by a unique horn) and whose convoluted plots are full of all manner of horseplay. Of course, there may be regulations restricting the public staging of certain acts involving animals, but as we all know the law is an ass.
Priceless! Each way one looks at it, this accumulator of equine ideas is in every sense a surefire winner and your particular virtuosity of horsemanship (what a strange word that is - "horse", "man" and "ship" all just thrown together as if that alone could confer sense upon it) is demonstrated beyond question as well capable of racing on furlonger than any of the rest of us could manage.
Thinking of my own speculative remark earlier about opera at Royal Ascot, I suppose my mention of vintage Krug ought to have included reference to champagne at the bit, but I'll stake my last penny on the fact that anyone and everyone here already recognises that I'm infinitely more slow-witted than Pegasus Barrett, so I'm sure that no one was surprised. That said, I suppose that the best seats for such an operatic production would be in the Royal Horse Box...
Nah - forget all this snobby rich-set stuff; what we need 'ere in good ol' England is an operatically staged version of
Drop the Dead Donkey, set on the muddy beach in Weston-super-Mare (from which it has been said that on a clear day one can see Swansea if one is looking in the wrong direction).
Time to Robert Bolt, methinks; I'll get me riding breeches (having already committed more breaches of good taste than any forum deserves)...
Best,
Alistair
