Opera is community, comfort, art, voice, breath, life.
With the singular blend of personal reflection and cultural criticism featured in the series, Avidly Reads Opera is an homage to the marvelous, sensational world of Opera for the casual viewer..
Part of the Avidly Reads series, this slim book gives us a new way of looking at culture.
Avidly Reads Opera is a love letter to the music and those who love it, complete with playlists, a crowdsourced tip sheet from ultra-fans to newbies, and stories of the turbulent, genre-busting, and often hilarious history of Opera and its audiences.
Across five acts and the requisite intermission Alison Kinney takes us everywhere operas rich melodies are heard, from the cozy bedrooms of listeners at home, to exclusive music festivals, to protests, and even prisons.
Whether were listening for the first time or revisiting the arias that first stole our hearts, Avidly Reads Opera welcomes readers and listeners to a community full of friendship, passion, critique and, always, beautiful music.
In times of delirious, madcap fun and political turmoil, Opera fans have expressed their passion by dispatching records into the cosmos, building fairy-tale castles, and singing together through the arduous work of social activism.
For Alison Kinney, it was the wild, fantastical world of Opera that transformed her listening and her life.
All art exists to make life more bearable.
Its hope.
Opera is community, comfort, art, voice, breath, life
