On Jan 13, 2007, at 4:23 AM, Daniel Wolf wrote:
On Jan 12, 2007, at 5:38 PM, John Howell wrote:
Opera was entertainment, and can only be compared with musical
theater today
This is a claim that is made again and again, but on any close
inspection will fall apart.
I'm glad someone else said this, and documented it so nicely, so that I
don't have to.
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.
Andrew Stiller
Kallisti Music Press
http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/
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