Brazoria, Saturday, November 26, 7:00 am

NEAL: The Met Opera broadcast season starts three weeks from today, so Ann and I have been trying to think up quiz questions about storms, floods, hurricanes, and such.   There are certainly a lot of operatic storms:

• Rigoletto: Sparafucile kills Gilda.
  
• Otello: Otello's ship arrives.
  
• Barber of Seville: Nothing happens except the passage of time.
  
• Porgy and Bess: The big hurricane scene.

But what about floods?   The obvious example is the finale of Goetterdammerung when the Rhine overflows.   Also:

• The scene in Pique Dame describing a death caused by a flooded prison cell.
• Stravinski's The Flood, based on the tale of Noah's ark.

Of course, it's futile to think that we'd be the first listener to submit a flood-related question.   The Met will get dozens of them, and, following their published procedure, they'll pick the one with the earliest postmark.