Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
But nevertheless, it's music ultimately that matters in opera, and opera is a piece of music reaching out as a vision in sound reaching out to the world.
Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.
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.
Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.
Opera is the original marriage of words and music, and there's a theatre element, a dramatic element. It's right up my alley.
The nature of music is mysterious and so much so that it generates strong emotions within us. It moves along passages that reach the most intimate areas of our psyche without being tried by prejudices or influences of any kind.
Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.
Music is a lens through which to see who we are. Every phrase of every piece of music is trying to tell a story.