Professor Zarling's Opera Rant Favorite Music Music has always been important to me. Now I mostly listen to classical music, from baroque to modern, especially opera. I know, it's an odd preference. I discovered opera late in life, and it hit me like a ton of bricks.
Opera is live theater, enhanced with music.
Well, ok, opera is a bit more abstract than film. Maybe an appreciation of abstraction in art is an aquired taste. To me, if it takes the soprano five minutes to sing about how she feels about the betrayal of her lover, that is not a pause in the action. It is five minutes in which I learn to feel what she feels like in a detailed way that could not be conveyed in real time. But if you enjoy live theatre, and if you think musical scores in movies add to the experience, you may want to give opera a try sometime.