Dull, Dull, Dull – Shouldn’t An Opera House Be More?

The design of Toronto’s new opera house is… well… pretty dull. “There’s nothing wrong with the new complex, but instead of something spectacular, it is polite, well mannered, deferential, even self-effacing. That would be fine if it were anything else, but this is, after all, an opera house, not a downtown shopping centre. What is opera if not spectacle?”