DANIEL:

At the age of 50, Monica, I need to become computer literate! Here at an opera company of all places!

MONICA:

I had Information Technology at university, but I still need to update regularly.

DANIEL:

Hardware, software, Windows, defaults, and clipboards; key terminology, they call it. It's all jargon to me.

MONICA:

Wait until you meet the information highways and you go surfing on the net!

DANIEL:

Yet it is proving invaluable. Editing text now is so easy.

MONICA:

And for your work on the production side?

DANIEL:

There too. They're currently computerising all the production information for the current opera: sets, props, warehousing, costumes, cast details such as height, weight, build – even Placido Domingo's shoe size!

MONICA:

Placido Domingo? There's a good friend of mine who wouldn't mind taking his measurements!