Been listening to the MET's Christmas version of the Mozart's The Magic Flute. I have always enjoyed this opera and we actually saw it performed in Vienna. I decided many years ago to see if I could adapt the story for this site. I did, and I think it worked out quite well. I wove the very famous but archaic Adventure Game into it. The story is "Cynthia and the Queen of Knight." Take a look at it. You might find it very enjoyable. It is part of the "Cynthia Chronicles."
The Magic Flute
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I love opera!
I love Portia!
Love, Andrea Lena
I've never seen an opera
But I do love Portia too.
Dang! I was 'sitting right there' with you ...
... in the Radio Audience. I had the "best seat in the house" - in my kitchen, whomping up a big pot of Veggie Goodness.
I fondly recall reading (at least twice!) your "Queen of Knight", especially as I used to play Adventure ... wherein I got squished every time... My "someday list" includes translating Adventure from C into Java.
I seem to recall you wove at least two other operas into your stories, I think one Was Girl of the Golden West, the other where the protagonists survived getting 'gassed' by having stowed scuba gear & air tanks.
Operas
Aida, Tosca, Tristan un Isolde, Girl of the Golden West, and Magic Flute.
Portia
Adventure
Actually won it and had it completely mapped. Then I foolishly gave it all away.
Portia
Cynthia and ...
The story also features the SRU Wizard, unless my memory has gone horrible since I read it.
-- Daphne Xu
The SRU Wizard ...
Appears/is instrumental to many/most of the Cynthia stories.
And he is, overall, much, much nicer than in many stories elsewhere about him.