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If you work in a small office, it is likely that the topic of music comes up. Jimmy Buffet plays cheerily on the radio. Computers happily play little tunes softly in our ears.Someone nonchalantly pops a squealing punk rock album on the CD player and nobody thinks of complaining. Well, we might think about it, but we don’t do it. We wait for it to end. We endure  - in the name of harmony.
Music is everywhere. Except opera. Try putting The Ring cycle in the CD changer and see how fast your pop-screech-loving colleagues will leap toward the machine with substitutes! And yet! Don Giovanni has its top notes and its tunes, its rolling harmonies. And, being in Italian, is every bit as incomprehensible to the average American as any mumbling vague semi-song on the radio. Opera has everything! We just aren’t used to it turning up in random places, like the grocery store overhead speakers. Opera lovers, we can change all that! Play that thrilling aria over and over again in your cubicle, loudly, and it will become just as familiar as any pop ditty! Opera lovers may be a secretive crowd, only scurrying out glittering in sequins and tuxedos, to watch the real thing, in breathtakingly expensive seats once a year, listening to Puccini’s greatest hits on their headphones while they jog, nodding agreeably when much less interesting songs are praised and played. Let’s not do that anymore. Let’s insist on equal time! Play those operas on the company speakers! Confess to a taste for Verdi! Hum a little Mozart! Scratch together the price of a seat at the Local Opera Club with its DJ, sportsbar, dance floor and barbeque orchestra pit. Grouse about the way ticket prices have gone up! Call up radio stations and request songs from Carmen! Let that opera rock and those arias roll! |
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