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Originally Posted by Janszoon
I don't listen to opera. I feel like I should give it a serious chance since it's obviously a significant style of music, but I don't think I've ever heard even a snippet of it that sounded appealing.
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Same here. I think the singing is just overblown to the point of being cartoonish. If they weren't committed to being as technically impressive as possible then I highly doubt that vocal style would have ever developed. I did dig Wagner's Ring Cycle though. But that's mostly because it was on TV, so there were subtitles, and there was a big, expensive, high-tech production made of it, so it felt like watching a live action fantasy movie... with goofy singing.