Volksoper

Via The Sideshow, Andy Ihnatko (Andy Ihnatko!  Whose stuff I was reading in the '90s!  He was to the Mac what Steve Sint was to camera equipment!) on performance in opera.  (Of course I'm impressed with baseball metaphors in opera!  Sheesh!)

A point made:

Anyway, it’s a shame that so many people don’t give opera a try. Opera was never meant to be inaccessible. There was a time when it was simply the popular entertainment of the day, just like movies are now. Opera stories go all over the map. You have your intense dramas, your light comedies, your action and fantasy productions.

And, as the advertising for a Certain Opera Company had it a couple of years ago, opera can be salacious.  Heh.

By the way, the last post was the 1,776th.  Somebody get me a fife and drum, stat!