On Sunday afternoon, I saw The Magic Flute at the Staatsoper im Schillertheater in Berlin. A girl of about 9 was sitting next to me, and she was leaning forward as she watched. I thought that if you grew up going to Mass at church in the morning and to the opera in the afternoon, it is only natural that you would have a different basic level of physical fitness from musicians who grew up in Japan.

But The Magic Flute is wonderful, isn’t it?

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