question: Well , things have certainly slowed down a lot . May is nearly here , and so we enter that late - spring season when there 's no longer enough snow for skiing and snowshoeing , but too much for camping and hiking . There had been talk both of season - ending skiing and snowshoeing trips this past weekend , but unfortunately both sets of plans fell through .
Q: How would you describe the speaker ?

answer: Active .

question: Casaer was played by a woman ( the part was written for a castrato , except they do n't castrate people anymore , so they have to use women instead ) , which was interesting to see . Also , there was a fairly small ensemble accompanying the singers , so there were no walls of sounds or great impressive fanfares . But the music was good .
Q: What may I have just seen ?

answer: A opera

question: In this period lasting from 1939 to 1945 six million Jews , more than three millions of Soviet prisoners of war , more than one million Polish and Yugoslav civilians , about 200.000 Gypsies and 70.000 disabled persons were murdered . This is genocide in the true sense of the word . Similarly , an imposing number of genocides have been committed in the recent years despite the United Nations Convention .
Q: What is making the narrator so aghast ?

answer:
The amount of wanton killing in the world .