Blog Transcript: Nic Muni
Certain key elements of opera I think are right in tune with the way our society is developing. And those are that opera deals with in extremis situations, and if you look at the sort of popular culture movement, reality shows, making a drama out of a chef or making a drama out of losing weight or making a drama out of renovating a house, there is this- and they make dramas, life and death dramas, I think there is a real hungering for primal, elemental extreme situations and that's opera. If opera's nothing else, it's that. Also opera is multimedia and I think we are in a multimedia age so I think it really connects with people. And thirdly, I think opera -- the storytelling of opera -- if you look at the way stories are told in our society in the last 15 years or so, they're much more episodic, they're much more fragmented, they're much more abstract, they're much more -- many stories use kind of, sort of like a puzzle technique where they don't tell you a story straight through narratively but they let you piece it together. That is how opera functions because of its abstract nature. There is a narrative but often it's episodic, timely. All of that's been done in opera so I think opera's really in tune.
