Q: I would like to be an opera singer, I love it and my teachers told me I had potential but it's not the music style I enjoy listening to the most (although it's beautiful, but it's just not what I prefer) and I like singing jazz and soul and stuff too. But what bothers me most is that most young people or even older ones are not into opera at all, I think mostly because cultural marketing isn't done very well and doesn't manage to draw new audiences. How many times have I heard people found it "annoying"... I would find it very frustrating if my job were something few people are interested in. But here in France, you can only have recognized diplomas and be assured you can maybe get a job if you study ""classical"" music... I'm confused. What should I do?
A: "assured you can maybe get a job" seems legit..... on an unrelated note, opera is 97% obsolete. that doesn't mean it's not good, and that doesn't mean you're not allowed to do it, or like it. but 'opera' is mainly a thing from a very different time than ours. i mainly cite technological reasons; microphones and speakers were not invented back then