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> But this idea that opera is stuffy high culture is the same mistake people make with Shakespeare These things ARE high culture today. Whether or not they wer
by rory 5y ago
> But this idea that opera is stuffy high culture is the same mistake people make with Shakespeare
These things ARE high culture today. Whether or not they were high culture when they were first produced doesn't change that in the slightest.
- mbg721 5y agoThat's true, but it just highlights how bizarre and arbitrary high-culture is. I don't know how to say "Hey everybody, we're all going to get laid!" in Italian while preserving Rodney Dangerfield's voice.
- rory 5y agoAbsolutely. The arbitrariness doesn't only apply to performance, either. Fancy people like old stuff. Jackson Pollock. Dubliners.