The difference with opera is that most people will not even consider listening to it without leaping to preconceived conclusions about how boring they may find it, or the sort of people that tend to listen to it. My point is that art is always worth more than what the majority thinks of it. On a personal level, I cannot see the appeal of modern art, and yet tens of thousands of people visit the Tate Modern gallery every single day.
If a piece of art in the wider sense of the word is enjoyed by even one person, then it has already fulfilled its primary function — to entertain. If you accept this, then perhaps you can also be convinced that opera has a certain specific appeal. Stripping away the unfortunate superficial layers with which opera is undeniably associated, at its heart you have a bunch of talented musicians uniting to perform very technical and precise music.
Opera can be uniquely moving. A full orchestra, coupled with gifted singers, complemented by beautiful melodies and harmonies creates immediate association with certain emotions. Conductor Benjamin Zander, in a fantastic TED talk, asks people to think of someone close to them that they have recently lost when playing a section of a Chopin prelude.
In opera, these emotions are conjured subconsciously, and our immediate emotional attention is concentrated on the experiences of the characters onstage. In every performance, you travel with these characters on a journey, and stirring music creates an even stronger bond.
Like every art form, not all of it is great. A Wagner opera for example can be excessively long Die Meistersinger was four and a half hours , where a Mozart opera can be irritatingly repetitive. I don't say this to dispute your figures. Oct, 3. This is a topic to follow. Oct, 4. Demographics of opera. Interesting question. And why are there so many gays but not that many women? Oct, 5. Oct, 6. When I've been to operas locally - I don't suppose Lowestoft is a typical venue!
Most of the audience are grey-haired. I am glad if there are more young people at the bigger venues. Maybe there is a small change in the fashion - look how babies are being given Victorian or Edwardian first names now. My fiddle my joy. Taggart , Pugg liked this post. Oct, 7. My impression is that when I visit large opera houses in bigger cities, the audience is more diverse.
Whereas in smaller theaters I often feel I am the only one younger than Oct, 8. Teenagers I know can enthusiastically rattle off the name of a dozen bands on their current favorite playlist, but ask them if they know who Brahms was and a funny kind of glazed look comes over their eyes.
Oct, 9. Originally Posted by bestellen. Oct, A few years ago I was meeting a stranger at a concert and I told them i'd be easy find: I'm the one with hair on the top of his head. More interesting are the odd questions that people ask about it.
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