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- You need to be an expert to enjoy opera. "One hundred per cent false. There are program booklets given to each audience member before the start of the performance.
- The singers sound 'weird' "Opera singers are trained from the very beginning to create sound that can be heard without amplification, over a large orchestra of 30 to 90 instruments.
- You'll get bored. "OK. So, full disclosure? Some operas are long. Especially for modern, iPhone-carrying, wifi-hounding, YouTube-loving, short-attention-span-possessing audiences (of which I, woefully, count myself a part!)
- If you don't understand Italian/German/French, forget it. "Not a problem. The majority of the audience around you will be in the same boat. Surtitles are the opera world's version of movie subtitles.
Why do so few people like opera? It's been a bummer being an opera fan recently (off the top of my head: San Diego closing + the Met having financial difficulties, and those are just the very recent examples). Why is our industry having so much trouble supporting itself? Do you think it can be fixed? If yes, how so?
Aug 16, 2012 · Is opera healthy today, or is it a 400-year-old art form struggling for its life in the face of fractured budgets, aging audiences and an explosion of new media options to occupy our eyes and...
Oct 13, 2011 · Some of our respondents – musicians and those with musicians in their families – pointed out that sometimes the people whose lives revolve around opera are the ones who can't afford...
Answered. Two things I'm confused about: Do the audiences all really understand French/Italian/German/etc? The style of singing seems really difficult to understand and pick out individual words (even when sung in English).
Opera is the most outsized and unrealistic of these forms (excepting plays in the genre of surrealism, I guess, and musicals like Cabaret with the weird nightclub-interludes and whatnot), and so there's some appeal in that. Just witnessing something so completely outsized.
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Nov 30, 2023 · Why is opera so unpopular? One big reason why many Americans aren’t exposed to opera is due to our educational system not providing adequate funding for arts education, owing to...
