did Antonio Salieri offer his chastity to God for a little recognition?

who knows the answer to this question?

but I’d bet he thought about it.

I'll tell you this: if I was in his shoes I'd do it.

I'd do it in a freakin' second.

in the meantime, my one act operetta

languishes in the ozone of the unknown

while hyper-sensitive Puccini gets another record contract

with a real tearjerker. sure I wept. I'm as human as the next guy.

but in my operetta everybody dies.

all the stars die and even the mop-pushing stagehand gets it in the end.

how tragic. how utterly human. how perfectly operatic!

but,–– I dunno.

did Antonio Salieri offer to God his chastity just for a looksee?

well, why not. don't all drowning men grab at weeds? 

It's a crowded field out there with every TomDick and Henrietta

jockeying for limited prime positions.

but in the end there's little room for: "live and let live" at the opera.

It’s just the way of it.