Thread:User talk:Blue/Opera nerd/reply (13)

Also, elitist, or right? I dare say I agree with him a lot. It's an art form that's very demanding and, frankly, most of the over-glorified pop singers making it as "classical" artists simply aren't up to the standard in either quality or endurance.

Though that's not just restricted to opera, out of all of Lloyd-Webber's televised audition shows over the last few years, most of the eventual winners drop out of the productions after a matter of weeks due to exhaustion. I suppose when it's controlled, televised and scrubbed up like Glee it masks how fucking difficult it really is, so no wonder people go in with certain breezy expectations and end up nearly dead.