![]() ![]() Opera is far less intimidating when Bugs Bunny conveys the Ring Cycle as a cartoon in “What’s Opera, Doc?”. However, many people were introduced to the opera through works created for a younger audience. The entire operatic performance can be a seventeen hour study of convoluted mythology. For example, Wagner’s “Der Ring des Nibelungen” seems intimidating to most people at first glance. Understanding opera is more a matter of getting the right cultural translation in place to better leverage older forms of art into a modern context. The situations, stories and even colorful artistic flourishes of opera tend to have a universal appeal. Humanity really doesn’t change all that much over time or place of birth. However, opera stops being intimidating soon after people start to really delve into it. Chinese opera in particular is intimidating on any number of different levels. This is even more common with opera from regions with complex histories. The average person usually thinks that getting into opera is tantamount to taking up rocket science or surgery as a hobby. ![]() Saying that people perceive opera to be artistically intimidating would be an understatement. Operatic performances and their various accoutrements are usually positioned at the very top of artistic works. Opera has a strange place in the modern world. ![]()
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