Memorial Valentine

Is that the shadow of a hoplite soldier leading away three tied captives behind the orange tree or what I just noticed them passing the window thinking how Wagner would have loved Puccini how their first operas were both titled ‘The Fairies’ different plots but oddly both premiered about the same time after Wagner’s death this was the manuscript he gave to Ludwig and subsequently came into Hitler’s hands perishing with him in the bombing of Berlin neither one of them produced much these days but how they both confirmed the magical origins of music