Others have assembled their personal shortlist of favourites from the 2010 #operaplot entries; someone has even created a taxonomy of #operaplot types.
I’ve been too pressed for time, alas. And so, as the clock ticks down to the announcement of the final results, I will simply put in my personal vote for what I think is the best, the most compleat, the most brilliant, the most poetic, and the most beautiful of #operaplots – the one that should stand as a model for us all:
Amatory lepidopterist traps fragile specimen among Nagasaki cherry blossoms. Fumbling to release her, he crushes her instead.
And I swear, if @primalamusica doesn’t win this time, I will eat a plate of tomatoes!