The Real Problem Millennials Have With Opera? “Our Phobia Of Unblunted Emotion”

Jeremy Polacek: “Rather, we’re more apt to ridicule something for being overly emotional or mock someone who is. … Characters in opera don’t share their feelings so much as disgorge them. Performances teem with huge, unburdened emotions. To [a generation] ironically allergic to such unalloyed sentiment, opera can seem a most strange, outlandish thing.”