[Leisler]

Music today is so processed that the popular ear for voice is lost. Opera is pretty high end for most tastes, but again, vocal arts sub opera are a wasteland. If you don't have schools, voice farm teams as it were, if you don't have trained and knowing audience in any great number, you shouldn't be surprised that you don't have many Opera fans.

This production actually confirms this, as it is really first and foremost a costume production with some voice acts.

[weegee]

Woudln’t surprise me in the least if at some point it becomes like a Britney Spears concert (or any other big POP star) where the opera stars are actually lipsynching over a digital playback of the voice while the focus is on the choreography.

Caruso WILL take the stage again in the 21st century.

[bboop]

There are a heck of a lot more opera fans than you see at the opera, though. People would go hear Mozart, Verdi, Bach, etc. But they will not go to see those wonderful composers bastardized by the producer’s impoverished and debauched ‘vision.’