How to Get into Opera

Opera is an Amazing Art Form, Here’s How Beginners Can Get Started

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It’s that sound that does it for me — the orchestra tuning up.

It sparks that first fizz of pleasure. The lights dim, people in the audience take their last chance to cough or clear their throats, the curtains go up and you’re suddenly immersed in a world of somebody else’s making.