The Ridiculous Theater recruited middle-aged opera singers willing to abandon careers overnight.

Evidence

Tavel recalled Opalach as “an amazing personality who was a leading soprano at the Atlanta City Opera. She was a woman in her late forties who one day decided to leave her family and her opera career and come to New York to start her life over.” — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 950

Categorization

• SEED: A profile angle: the middle-aged opera diva who abandoned family and career for the Ridiculous Theater — a human story of the conditions that produced downtown art.