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Oct 28, 2016 · The music, the stories, the costumes, the voices! To kick off National Opera Week 2016, a week-long celebration of the art form, we’re sending up some of the many (many) reasons we love opera. 1. Beautiful Music . Ok, maybe you saw this one coming. Opera is, quite literally, nothing without its music.
I wrote a post about why opera is better today than one hundred years ago, and thought I should build on on the topic of the vocalism. I enjoy old recordings. I actually started with listening to Caruso, before I attended my first operatic performance at the age of 8.
I'm surprised no one else has mentioned this- I enjoy opera because not only is it great music and storytelling, but the vehicle for both of those is the most beautiful and expressive instrument available, namely the human voice.
Opera has some of the most dramatic and beautiful music of the classical repertoire, in particular using voice as an instrument, which is otherwise moderately uncommon in orchestral music. It’s also full of melodrama, humor, and romance.
- going to the opera to experience art in its fullest form. The opera is music and theater, dance, poetry, architecture, painting, sculpture, video, lighting, history … a night at the opera embodies all forms of expression invented by men to enhance reality in all its beauty.
- to be carried away by universal feelings. In past centuries the opera was the art privileged by the courts but loved by the people for whom it was passion, recreation, education, solace, and incentive.
- to rediscover the same titles production after production. The opera is special because it is alive and in constant evolution. At the same time, it’s always itself: the same titles are never really the same, and so over the years, I attended hundreds of performances of Don Giovanni, Boris Godunov, Tosca, Falstaff, Elektra, Salome, etc.
- to escape from reality. Going to the opera is attending a unique and alive performance. On stage, backstage, in the orchestra pit, and the hall, every minute is unprecedented … the show is alive and is experienced in unison by hundreds of people.
Sep 4, 2023 · Find out from some of our cast, creatives and chorus members why they think people love Puccini's opera 'Tosca' so much. If you are thinking of coming...
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Apr 28, 2020 · In the past, we’ve asked some of our favorite artists to choose the five minutes or so they’d play to make their friends fall in love with classical music and the piano. This time, the goal is...
