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Hee. That is just too joyful. (Me, I have long wished that ENO would sing in the original language. I know that translation is their schtick, but I hate it.)

Also, boats. Way back in the farbeyond, I saw a production of Britten's Death in Venice that had a Very Complicated Set with Actual Gondolas (gondoli?). That would glide beautifully onstage - and then get stuck, and not glide off as was proper. My chief memory is stage hands clad in black crawling around onstage, pushing recalcitrant boats hither and yon...