Sep 3, 2025
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If it sounds like the composer is trying to blast you with the orchestra until you're as deaf as he is, it's Beethoven.
If it sounds like the composer might be a vampire, it's Bach.
If it sounds like the composer is trying to set the violins on fire, it's Vivaldi.
— ♡ Anna Pavlova and her pet swan, Jack - Photographed by Lafayette in London, 1927
Solomiya Krushelnytska as Brünnhilde in R. Wagner’s opera “Die Walküre”
Rosalía at her LUX Listening Party at Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya in Barcelona
Timothee Chalamet is being dragged for shitting on ballet and opera which I like to see because I love ballet and opera and don't like Chalamet.
But as usual there is a string of comments about how opera, ballet and classical music are soooo inaccessible, and only rich people can afford it.
Is it inaccessible tho or you don't like it and try to invent a justification for it?
Yes, not everyone can visit live performance, because every type of live entertainment is limited by infrastructure. People living in big cities have way more access to concerts, sport events and so on.
But for any other form of entertainment these argument would be laughable. Is being a fan of NHL team is inaccessible if you can't go to see them (and if you live in the middle of hot nowhere you can't even go to see any hockey live at all)? Is being a fan of a famous singer is inaccessible if you only can afford to listen to their music in Spotify using your shitty headphones?
But for some reason inability to go to the MET is making ballet inaccessible.
In the same time, opera and ballet are straight up accessible for free on YouTube. You can watch tons of professional high quality recordings from opera houses all over the world. For opera you will need to search for subtitles in languages you know, of course, but for example OperaVision (EU sponsored opera channel) provides subtitles in English.
If you happen to live in a city with any kind of professional educational institution for classical musicians, you can visit their concerts for free. They are good and also may have more interesting repertoire that your usual big orchestra.