{"id":310,"date":"2010-07-07T18:23:49","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T18:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp\/?p=310"},"modified":"2010-07-07T18:23:49","modified_gmt":"2010-07-07T18:23:49","slug":"no_one_feels_a_song_coming_on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/2010\/07\/no_one_feels_a_song_coming_on\/","title":{"rendered":"No One Feels a Song Coming On?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I sometimes misjudge friends&#8217; musical interests and take them along to an opera I&#8217;ve snagged tickets to attend. Whatever masterpiece of the repertoire we&#8217;ve camped out in the plush seats to hear, when we compare notes at intermission, I get the distinct impression that the experience of listening to people sing like that to advance basic plot points sounds pretty much like this to them:<\/p>\n<p><center><object height=\"304\" width=\"500\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OBGOQ7SsJrw&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OBGOQ7SsJrw&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"304\" width=\"500\"><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Still, considering that we live in an era when television shows like <i>The Bachelor<\/i> and <i>Jersey Shore<\/i> are mainstream cultural touchstones, we are clearly not a people who got &#8220;too serious&#8221; for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanidol.com\/\">song<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/abc.go.com\/shows\/dancing-with-the-stars\">dance<\/a> routines or who are too jaded to appreciate over-the-top melodrama.<\/p>\n<p> Which makes me wonder: Clearly the operatic masterworks continue to move a select crew, and Disney has done its thing to the American musical. But is there a new &#8220;Grand Opera, 21st-century style&#8221; idea buried in the zeitgeist somewhere, sitting on a high E flat just waiting to get out?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/assets_c\/2010\/07\/operapig-16073.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/assets_c\/2010\/07\/operapig-16073.html','popup','width=640,height=204,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/assets_c\/2010\/07\/operapig-thumb-475x151-16073.gif\" alt=\"operapig.gif\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"151\" width=\"475\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sometimes misjudge friends&#8217; musical interests and take them along to an opera I&#8217;ve snagged tickets to attend. Whatever masterpiece of the repertoire we&#8217;ve camped out in the plush seats to hear, when we compare notes at intermission, I get the distinct impression that the experience of listening to people sing like that to advance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-310","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}