No.7410
I went to see Wagner and it was epic, I really enjoyed it, and would recommend it, but the crowd was funny because there were actual haute bourgeoisie there, half of them looked like Mr. Burns and were just about to keel over dead. Just all the evil rich Republican people in this city were there in their Sunday best, not the "populists" with no class, but the shadowy creeps who own industries and pull the strings behind the curtain. Like actual old money.
But it was a great opera. I don't see what's so bourgeois about the art form itself. Lunacharsky, the Soviet minister of culture in the 20s-30s, was a big Wagner geek. He was gay for Wagner and they performed his operas there. After the concert, the opera singers did a smaller Q&A with some of the people who stayed behind (actual opera fans), and this one guy who just travels around the world attending operas got up and went on a long spiel about how to make opera more appealing to the masses, and he had some suggestion about making it easier for fans to interact with the singers backstage, but one of the performers who played Alberich, who was also a redneck dude from one of those redneck small towns in the state, made a point that nobody up there gives a fuck what you wear to the opera.
Like you can wear pajamas, they don't care. They just like the art form. They seemed like really cool people. I think that reputation of it being a hoity-toity thing is really because of these rich people who, as much as they appreciate it with their money, go in part to show off to their friends. The people who actually stuck around afterwards for the Q&A with these people were not dressed as fancily.
He also made a quick point that they don't mind people coming up to them after the show, or hanging out backstage, but they do have security for a reason, because of something like "opera houses are not actually safe, you don't know how bad something can go until it happens." He didn't elaborate, but I imagine some lunatic opera fanatic stalking some performer or a LaRouche cult member going ballistic because they didn't do it with Verdi tuning.
No.7411
>>7410Wait are LaRouchites actually responsible for the 432 Hz meme lol
They're behind so much crackpot stuff it's unbelievable
No.7419
>>6693At most petit-bourgeoisie. Actual bourgeoisie dont give a shit.
No.7567
no art form is inherently bourgeois, or remains such for time immemorial. things may start boug, but can become co-opted. realistically art in general are just frames through which any number of ideas or feelings can be portrayed. i'd refer you to that classic zizek bit on Ode to Joy.
anyway it cant be boug because i like jazz and calling something boug is bad, but jazz is good and i like it, ergo not bourgeois