 When the downtown avant-garde opera "A Letter to Queen Victoria" by Philip Glass and Robert Wilson opened at the Metropolitan Opera, the station was right there to tape excerpts in rehearsals for broadcast.Ruas initiated a year-long series on Marguerite Young’s epic novel "Miss MacIntosh, My Darling".These readings were transformed into performances by Rob Wynne, who scored them with a complex collage of sound effects, music, and opera.