I usually don't like opera. Anything that tries to blow out my eardrums, or anything that sounds like a cat's tail being stepped on, or those songs I can't understand a single word of because they're in some or another language I don't have on my repertoire, and the people in silly costumes trying to sing their way through a silly drama act while only screaming their throats hoarse. I don't see the point of it. I have found opera that is alright, and even some that was lovely, even. But more often than not it's the exception of the rule.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised to find a thread about opera among our high-class sims players (;b). Actually I have developed a love for opera. I come from a musical family (rock and roll/blues) but really love all kinds of music. I have actually been a "super" in some opera productions so I have a close relationship with it. Actually I really love the classics - Joan Sutherland and Luciano Pavarotti - excessively. But my current living favorite is Lawrence Brownlee, a young up and comer with a magnificent tenor who doesn't have a lot of recordings or youtube vids yet although he's starting to work in opera houses all over the world: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rup3Uo9eZcMw

Duh. I thought you said "Opra" as in "Winfree" - probably spelling her name wrong. Hate her. Don't know anything about Opera.

You are not alone in the love of the divinely brilliant sounds of the opera the control that the singers have on their voices is so majestic and wonderful that it lifts you from where you are in to their world,
I have a few other FAV's when it comes to Arias
Anna Netrebko
Rolando Villazón
Dianna Damrau

However in the opera its self I will always love Mozart the ultimate being the magic flute (THE BEST OPERA IN THE WORLD WITH THE GREATEST ARIAS)

I like it, but I'm not overly familiar with it. I don't think I was very keen on it for a long time and then realized how lovely some of it is when I watched the movie "Diva", which is about an American opera singer and the French package delivery guy who illegally tapes one of her concerts. When I saw "Moonstruck", I realized again that I really liked some pieces of opera.

I've only been once. We saw Carmen and I wasn't thrilled with it. It was just ok.

When I was a child, I used to sneak to my room and turn on the radio (volume low) so I could listen to opera. No one in my family (and none of my friends) listened to either opera or classical music and the fact that I did got me teased a lot. I still love it. I have converted a couple friends and sisters to opera. It's one of those things that many people make fun of, but rarely give a fair chance to. See it live before you knock it. If you've never seen an opera, go see a comedy. They're not as long as dramas, easier to get into, and laughter is good for you. Mozart's comedy "Cosi Fan Tutte" was how I got my friends into opera. And they thought opera was only about tragic death. Opera virgins needn't worry when it's not in their native tongue. There are always subtitles. It's like watching a foreign movie/TV show but live. Price, like for any live show, depends on the show, the seats, and the day/time. The MET now shows many of its productions in movie theaters like AMC around the world. So, if you don't have an opera house or company in your area see if you have a movie theater that shows them (this also works if you like eating food while watching).

Tarja Turunen anybody?

Florence Jenkins is my kind of opera girl.

I love Classical music. My favourite period is the Baroque era.

I like some opera, and Placido Domingo was quite awesome. Used to watch it a lot with my grandma. Pavarotti was a badass opera singer too.

My exposure to classical and opera was brought into my life through father\daughter sessions of watching Looney Tunes as his appreciation was instilled with the same cartoons. I can't help but think of the poor singer who holds the note until he starts falling apart, turn different colors and essentially brings the house down when a certain note is held that long.

I have a fondness for that one song in Pagliacci where the clown is heartbroken about his recent divorce and he just goes on with the show in his costume and face paint.

Oh, I use it all the time! ...Wait, you're talking about the music...

I actually am classically trained in voice and sang opera toward the end of my training before i had to quit. Mostly before then I did broadway showtunes, but I sang some of the arias of Madame Butterfly and Hannibal. Which was really cool and hard!

I have so much respect for people who do opera, I would kill to do vocal lessons again