At 7:21 PM -0500 1/13/07, Andrew Stiller wrote:
I would only add that in the English-speaking world (and in a number
of other traditions),
opera was never mass entertainment because it was almost invariably
performed in a foreign language.
Quite truthfully:
I cannot abide opera that is _not_ in a (personally unintelligible)
foreign language.
That said:
There is much opera that I love. (Though it's words are personally
unintelligible.)
I do not believe that my taste is a universal aberration.
-=-Dennis
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