Opera is Diamond

Opera vs. theater. No matter how hard you try, the truth is, they are not the same thing.
Everyone keeps babbling and nippering about how opera must change into a theatrical art form.
But how many of them actually stepped up and wrote a book suggesting ways to approach this shift?
Opera is the theater of the voice, not the theater of realism.
We keep pushing for this change, but in the past half century, no one has figured out the right ways to balance acting and singing. And I have a strong feeling that this forced push can only leave our ears with more sour music.
If it is not right, it will not feel right...it will not look right...and it will not sound right.

Why cover gold with silver? Just because the culture cannot see the worth in a diamond, does not mean that we(the musicians) should turn it into stone.
A diamond will always be a diamond, but if one cannot see the worth in that diamond, he will not appreciate it the way it should be appreciated.
Why would someone ever prefer a stone over a diamond?
Or Hershey's over Godiva?
Or cheap copied print over the original?
Or a cheap slut over a noble queen?

Why must we lower ourselves for the dumb unappreciative minds?
There isn't an answer, because there should never be one.


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