BIRMINGHAM, England — Who would be crazy enough to write an opera called "Wednesday" and require for one scene that four noisy helicopters — real choppers like the ones that drive us to distraction at the Hollywood Bowl — fly over the theater with microphones on their rotors so that the chop, chop, chop can be mixed into the sound of the score? There is also a dancing camel that becomes president. What kind of director in his right mind would want to stage this? What opera company needs this kind of headache? Such meshugas doesn't come cheap, so where might funding be found? The composer was the German visionary Karlheinz Stockhausen (I know "visionary" is overused, but...
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