Opera can actually be kinda fun, especially if it’s in a language you understand. It’s (mis)understood to be stuffy and boring now, but back in the day it was low-brow entertainment.
Honestly I think it’s worse when it’s a language I understand since it makes the sing-talking a lot more frustrating to listen to for me
Trying to rack my brain for english operas, I played pit for GianCarlo Menotti’s the old maid and the thief, a fun 20th century one.
Most of what comes to mind is older baroque stuff tho
Benjamin Britten
John Adams
Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress, libretto co-written by W.H. Auden
Is there any constellation in which the opera gets to be leftist? I feel like it’s either hideously expensive or alternatively subsidized by tax money on the basis of it’s “high culture” despite 90% of people not having any interest in it
Crucialy I have nothing for or against Opera as an art, what pisses me off is that it’s seen as “high culture” and subsidized to no end
Some Chinese opera is pretty great. This is from the Long March song cycle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh63s2jyRXU
“Aw shit bro there’s some dude in a mask killing the actors! Wait, is that your ex?”
It’s like that “Derrick Comedy” yt bit with Donald Glover but I don’t want to say the title of it
are pups allowed at the opera?
