Quite a few operas are still being commissioned around the world, although nothing apart from audience popularity can ensure more than a few performances.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The performances of my works in the last 10 years are probably equal to all the previous years put together. There are so many venues now and there is a completely new public for opera that's grown up outside of the traditional core opera public.
I think that opera in Europe is 30 years ahead of America. There is a broader range of material presented to the public. They value contemporary opera.
The music of the most popular operas is so highly esteemed, it can stand endless revivals.
The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever.
The English National Opera does have some terrific productions, which are accessible, and they're not too ridiculously expensive.
Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music.
Opera is an exclusive art form, so it cannot be that popular. I just do what I love to do.
Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.
I think opera has gained a kind of glamorous appeal. It's a live performance that aligns all of the arts, and when it is represented in the media, in film in particular, it is presented as something that is really a special event, whether it's a great date or something that's just hugely romantic.
Now the big question is if you are going to go to all the trouble of setting an opera and making all that music and so on, there's got to be some aspect that you can do in an opera that really makes it worth while.
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