Fossil dragon

[Adrienne Mayor <afmayor@aol.com>]

Did any paleo folk happen to attend the Chicago Lyric Opera's recent 
production of Wagner's opera Siegfried?

For anyone interested in mythology and fossils, the production was 
fascinating and revolutionary.
For the first time in opera history, the terrible dragon Fafnir was 
depicted on the stage as a gigantic, scary dinosaur skeleton.

Was the dino-like image perhaps influenced by the unveiling of the T. 
rex Sue at the Field Museum?

The fossil imagery is fitting for the story of Siegfried, since a 
dinosaur trackway in Germany was fabled to be the footprints of the 
dragon that the hero Siegfried battled.

I have a high-resolution digital image of the giant fossil dragon 
puppet from the opera. I'd be happy to email it to anyone who would 
like to see it. Contact me offline.