Timothee Chalamet, an actor, has a lot of gall to snidely bash on ballet and opera whilst the performing arts industry altogether is under fire what with the ever-growing weed that is generative AI replicating face cards like his by the second.
Meanwhile, ballet and opera are real-time, multi-manual branches of the performing arts that are painstakingly, elegantly- honed forms of craftsmanship.
In high school, I had the priveledge to perform a couple of operatic pieces with my choir, as well as attend one irl. When people assume that conservatory arts are just "exclusive entertainment", it's overlooking how these are REAL people who CHOOSE to suffer themselves to keep it alive via personal training/coaching/seeking dependable patrons for marketing. It's pricey because of all the real-life TLC that's happening all simultaneously.
The movie tickets seem cheaper because they are owned by bigpocket companies that can afford buying out empty seats, wheras most stage productions need a full-house to stay afloat.
I was never a fan of Chalamet, nor have I ever watched the films he plays in (and probably never will atp), but I will say this: opera and ballet were once the television before the contraption was even invented; he ought to learn to acknowledge and respect his performing predecessors.
