The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When the music and the characters are flawlessly synchronized, the opera develops an emotional force that movies and plays cannot match.
True expression is hard when performing opera. The problem is that opera relies on the dramatic context of the piece. It can be interpreted and represented, but there are guidelines; there is a vocabulary within the pieces that you must know objectively and reflect.
When the story is good enough, people can watch something three times the length of an opera.
Opera combines pretty basic theater and poetry, but the storyline itself is actually quite poetic and, after some digital research, taking that actual content and seeing it as undeniably poetic.
The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge.
The most lively fancy aided by the strongest description cannot equal the reality of the opera.
Opera is the original marriage of words and music, and there's a theatre element, a dramatic element. It's right up my alley.
Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
Dance stories, unlike those in opera, are usually simple.
Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.