Yeah, if Renato had had a better king and friend, he would never have snapped the way he did :(

Ooh, yay! Although of course I love baritones, I am willing to take any flavor of voices as friends who don't betray each other. Hmm, this may be part of why I like Nozze, and the women of Nozze -- Susanna and the Countess, and Susanna and Cherubino, are both pairs of friends who don't really have a whole lot of angst involved between them. (Well, okay, Cherubino also wants to get in her pants, but I kind of don't take that seriously because no one else does, including Cherubino and Susanna themselves.)

...I will have to go look for those silly opera plot summaries sometime :P :)