that Bayreuth has recruited its Parsifals from the peasantry, and
that the artisans of a village in the Bavarian Alps are capable
of a famous and elaborate Passion Play, and then consider whether
England is so poor in talent that its amateurs must journey to
the centre of Europe to witness a Wagner Festival. 

The truth is, there is nothing wrong with England except the
wealth which attracts teachers of singing to her shores in
sufficient numbers to extinguish the voices of all natives who
have any talent as singers.  Our salvation must come from the
class that is too poor to have lessons. 

End of The Project Gutenberg Etext of The Perfect Wagnerite, by Shaw