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...adults) is one of the fair's best shows. Here kids can poke their arms into plastic sleeves to see how heavy a grapefruit is on Mars, spin on a platform by tilting a giant gyroscope, make wave patterns in water tanks, and watch a 40,000-member ant colony go busily about its cutaway civic activities...
...familiar "God so loved the world that he gave to it his only begotten son." Billy illustrated it with an incident from his own life. Several years ago, he said, while walking in the country with his son, he had accidentally stepped on an anthill, killing many of the ants. When his distressed son asked him if he could not help the insects, Billy had said no, they were too small; only if he were to become an ant himself could he help-and he could not do that because he was not God. "But when God decided that...
...theatrical opera tells the story of Salvatore, a shabby, greying voice teacher who falls in love with Formica, a curvy voice student. Later, in a fit of jealousy. Salvatore strangles Formica at the peak of a coloratura run. In prison, the murderer's only companion is a queen ant that has flown in the window, and Salvatore comes to believe that the ant is his dead beloved...
After Salvatore's release, the action shifts to the cabaret where he sings his climactic aria (Vivat Formica] before the ant dies beneath the proprietor's heel...
Dresden-born and the son of a viola player, Ronnefeld toured Germany in his teens as a concert pianist. Now chief conductor at the Bonn Stadttheater, he has written a handful of other compositions, but The Ant is both his first full-scale opera and his first work to attract wide attention. The boos it also attracts seem to Composer Ronnefeld merely "stupid." To people who read it correctly, he insists, his ant opera "introduces a higher reality...