# closet clasical music fans

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 25, 2000, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/closet-clasical-music-fans/15209 "2000-03-25T08:28:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![aschrott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/aca169/32.png) [@aschrott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aschrott)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2000, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/closet-clasical-music-fans/15209/21 "2000-03-28T02:12:00Z")

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Classical music is my life–or at least I would like it to be (young professional opera/concert singer [read: I make some money at it but I have to do a lot of odd jobs to pay the bills!]). For all of you “not so sure about opera”-ers out there: go see one live on stage. Recordings don’t begin to reveal the real joys of the art form unless you already know a piece intimately. And if you do see one on stage and it sucks, don’t think you just don’t _get_ it–it probably did suck (the performance, usually). See another one–preferably starring young up-and-comers like myself!

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**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2000, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/closet-clasical-music-fans/15209/22 "2000-03-28T02:58:00Z")

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No, not closeted.

One word: _Aida_.

**Verdi** aaaahhhhhhh…

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