'I thought opera how hard can it be? Songs Pretty girls dancing Nice scenery Lots of people handing over cash Got to be better than the cut-throat world of yoghurt I thought Now everwhere I go there's' Death to be precise & plenty of it In unpleasant variations This isn't real life
- it's worse This is the Opera House Ankh-Morporka huge rambling building where innocent young sopranos are lured to their destiny by a strangely-familiar evil mastermind in a mask & evening dress with a penchant for lurking in shadows occasional murder & sending little notes full of maniacal laughter & exclamation marks Opera can do that to a man But Granny Weatherwax Discworld's most famous witch is in the audience & she doesn't hold with that sort of thing So there's going to be trouble (but nevertheless a good evenin's entertainment with murders you can really hum) & the show MUST go on