What is with parents these days?

[katiesue]

I have a fourth grader. I looked up the actual video set on the net and it's an old series that was made for kids to introduce them to opera.

Description: Mignon/La Perichole world-famous soprano Joan Sutherland and her magical puppet friends present opera programs designed for the whole family. Presented with fun and humor, designed to make adults and children comfortable with this area of western culture. Spotlights two operas.

I'd be fine with my daughter viewing this. She can see much worse daily on TV (heck her Dad thinks letting her watch CSI is appropriate).

From the original article it sounds as if the parents were more opposed to the "devil" aspect than the Opera part. I'm not an opera fan but don't a lot of them involve murder/tradedy? What about Shakespeare? Lots of death, suicide in say Romeo and Juliet. The music teacher was trying to expose them to the art of Opera, I don't think the actual content of the opera was the point of the lesson.