What's in your Glimmerglass?

Mr. Ian Garner of Ripe, U.K., our roving opera correspondent, has taken up the challenge of New York's Glimmerglass Festival to blend operas and beer.

Mr. Garner has stirred the brew to bring Mozart, Rossini and Britten into the pub with these works:

"Die Entfuhrung aus dem Ser-ale"

"La Donna del Lager"

And our favorite for a pint:  "Billy Budweiser."

Our Ripe reporter also suggested an aria, "Lager al Factotum," Figaro's show-stopper from "The Barber of Seville," with this notation: "Lager ma non Troppo"--lager, but not too much, which he writes, "is always good advice, I think."