Admirers of the perpetually beleaguered art of Richard Wagner will be relieved to know that Donald Trump evidently has a low opinion of the composer. The passage above, dated Sept. 25, 1987, appears in Tina Brown's addictively absorbing Vanity Fair Diaries. A curious footnote: although the Ring was in the air at the Met that month, with the new Otto Schenk production of Rheingold waiting in the wings, the season opened with Plácido Domingo in the title role of Otello. The future Horror-Clown seems to have had no idea what he was seeing.
