the number of US adults who attended at least one opera performance in 2002 exceeded the number who attended at least one nickelback performance in 2006 many times over, and was twice the number of adults+kids who bought 2006's biggest selling album. the number of adults who experienced opera in some form during that year exceeded the number of adults+kids who have ever purchased an album by willie nelson, bob dylan, def leppard or the backstreet boys.
― nuneb (nuneb), Friday, 1 December 2006 23:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 1 December 2006 23:08 (seventeen years ago) link
more than half the operas in the standard repertoire are less than 150 years old, and about 30% are from the 20th century
― nuneb (nuneb), Friday, 1 December 2006 23:10 (seventeen years ago) link
that's attendance in one year compared to sales over as much as 40 years
― nuneb (nuneb), Friday, 1 December 2006 23:11 (seventeen years ago) link
well no, the whole point of high culture is that it isn't pop
― nuneb (nuneb), Friday, 1 December 2006 23:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 1 December 2006 23:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 1 December 2006 23:24 (seventeen years ago) link
more than triple, actually, but CFL attendance was more than three times that of Canadian opera attendance
― nuneb (nuneb), Friday, 1 December 2006 23:29 (seventeen years ago) link
'experience', actually, not attendance
― nuneb (nuneb), Friday, 1 December 2006 23:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Saturday, 2 December 2006 04:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― nuneb (nuneb), Saturday, 2 December 2006 05:31 (seventeen years ago) link
YES, WE KNOW SHAKESPEARE MADE A FEW KNOB JOKES. GET OVER IT.
― [electric sound of] esteban buttez (Estie Buttez), Saturday, 2 December 2006 05:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― nuneb (nuneb), Saturday, 2 December 2006 05:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― nuneb (nuneb), Saturday, 2 December 2006 05:42 (seventeen years ago) link
I WANT CHEAP SERIOUS ELITIST THEATRE!!
― [electric sound of] esteban buttez (Estie Buttez), Saturday, 2 December 2006 05:44 (seventeen years ago) link
er, nothing else to add, really. other than "nabisco OTM", but i feel such truisms should be banned from the sandbox and indeed from nuILX :)
― grimly fiendish (simon), Saturday, 2 December 2006 17:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― ian (orion), Saturday, 2 December 2006 23:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― remy bean (bean), Saturday, 2 December 2006 23:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― ian (orion), Saturday, 2 December 2006 23:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― remy bean (bean), Saturday, 2 December 2006 23:19 (seventeen years ago) link