 And things get even worse when he comes to the opera house. I mean, if you look up the Bard of Avon in the Grove Dictionary of Opera, there's a grand total of 389 operas based on his plays. And how many of those can you actually name? I mean, it's not because there were hacks that tried it. I mean, Puccini, Moscagni, even Britten all tried to do an adaptation of Lear and finally gave that up. Wagner did a version of Measure for Measure, but that's not even performed at Bayreuth.