GfS, maybe I'm missing something here.

"...wasn't there a 'gay' performance of it, in West Hollywood?..and even the female parts were men.... Both Judy Collins, and Dan Fogelberg did a version of Judi's Fogelberg, 'Since You've Asked'
and this is her original version(She wrote it) Judy Collins 'Since You've Asked'

..and the change in the lyrics made it ok..but in opera, not so good...or the age or gender change."

A "gay" performance of what? Turandot? I don't know. I never heard of it if there was.

And how does this relate to the videos you linked to (beautiful graphics, by the way). If there was a difference in lyrics between the two versions, I couldn't pick it up. Judy Collins' voice is as clear as a bell and her diction is quite precise, but in the Fogelberg video, the musical arrangement, lovely though it was, made the lyrics muddy and indistinct. So if there was a difference in lyrics, I wasn't able to distinguish it.

But again. How does this relate?

And what do I think Puccini would think of the differences between the Judy Collins and Dan Fogelberg videos? I haven't a clue!

Could you clarify a bit?

Don Firth