Any doubt that opera is the high-art form of the moment? “The Czech National Theater said on Monday it was working on an opera to commemorate the surprise gold medal victory of the Czech men’s Olympic ice hockey team in Nagano in 1998. ‘It is a kind of modern Czech legend and operas have always been based on legends. We know it is an unusual motif but it is quite interesting and able to carry some kind of a musical form’.”