Blog: Statehouse Observer

Opera is making its way into more accessible venues and popular culture. Alternative means of accessibility to this, often, expensive art form are opening up the world of opera to a changing audience.

Opera Documentaries

Television documentaries that show inside stories of opera are gaining popularity in among the plethora of reality TV shows. Britain’s Channel Four collaboration with the English National Opera to produce the documentary/competition Operatunity, offering ordinary people who had always wanted to be opera singers the chance to win a role in a mainstage production of Rigoletto, took television ratings by storm, as did the later Australian version OperatunityOz (Opera Australia/ABC TV).

The performances of Rigoletto, in both countries, that featured the winning singers were sold out long in advance. Likewise, CDs recorded by the winners were snapped up by an eager public, who had watched the progress of the contestants throughout the series.

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