Opera once was an important social instrument -- especially in Italy. >>
Opera in English, is about as sensible as baseball in Italian. >>
I love Italian opera -- it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowi >>
The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggest >>
Opera once was an important social instrument -- especially in Italy. With Rossini and Verdi people were listening to opera together and having the same catharsis with the same story, the same moral dilemmas. They were holding hands in the darkness. That has gone. Now perhaps they are holding hands watching television.