Much to my surprise, I wanted to create a new "bridge" to friends and fans and even the occasional ones who don't get me. The many singers who have asked advice, here is place to come talk to me.
All my Facebook "friends" and my Operavision followers, I invite you to come tell me when you feel strongly about a performance of an opera... Come tell me about your thoughts, your opinions. Opera is very much alive, and I am always feel more alive around it.
What I ask is politeness. To each other, and to me. We are all in this together. At some point or another..... something I do or something you do adds to the tapestry of the modern cloth of culture. Energy and emotion feeds it.
Come tell me your thoughts on how opera is adapting to current trends. Is it a good thing or a bad thing?
I am someone who is madly in love with this mode of expression. The human voice conveys emotions without even words.... and then....the words clarify. Heaven.
FIRST Question:
What makes Ballet so faithful to its traditions, and why are those that feel opera can be so tampered with? Does Gilda in the back of a trunk instead of the inside of a burlap sack really offend, and if so,
why?
