Opera America opens a new Mecca (or Jerusalem) for companies and singers...Singer short-changed by The Metropolitan Opera after falling from the stage...opera and ballet try to glitz up opening night (with snooty, quasi-celebritries)...Hurricane Aprea is rumbling in Palm Beach...Eat some opera singer-grownalgae.

Oliver's Corner concludes his overview of Coronation of Poppea with the charactersDrusilla, Poppea, and Nerone.