Letter To PBS From Jane Austen Viewing Club Member About Prokofiev's Peter And Wolf And Humperdinck's Hansel And Gretel: Please Sirs, Not Too Much!

Dear PBS,

Good morning.

Don't any of you have children or spouses or grandparents or partners who have to work in the mornings? Back to back, edgy screenings of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf and Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel are, well, you know, too much -- and too late for us workers and caregivers.

Faithfully,

Pan Cogito
Lagging Member of the Jane Austen Viewing Club

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Great Performances at The Met: "Hansel and Gretel"
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Great Performances at The Met: "Manon Lescaut"
Great Performances at The Met: "I Puritani"
Great Performances at The Met: "The First Emperor"
Great Performances at The Met: "Peter Grimes"
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Great Performances at The Met: "Tristan und Isolde"
Great Performances at The Met: "The Barber of Seville"
Great Performances at The Met: "La Bohème"
Great Performances at The Met: "Il Trittico"
Great Performances at The Met: "La Fille du Règiment"
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"The Nightingale"
Operatunity
"The Little Prince"
"The Merry Widow" from the San Francisco Opera

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"Peter and the Wolf"

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Photo credits: (c) Ken Howard and MET Opera. All rights reserved. [Hansel and Gretel and Peter Grimes]. Heinrich Zille images from Academy of Arts, Berlin via New York Times. With thanks.