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Perhaps the greatest danger of all is that the trend will not escape the traps of faddishness and superficial exploitation of anomaly—traps that threaten even the more serious and gifted innovators. Dave Hassinger, who produced The Electric Prunes' Mass recording for Reprise, is considering a rock adaptation of an opera for a future project. A modern atonal opera? A newly commissioned work? No. "I'm thinking," says Hassinger, "of Madame Butterfly."