Every form of musical theatre played out within an opera house is also, inevitably, a parody.
In filmed-opera, the unity between voice and body is no longer natural, as in the opera house, but a carefully engineered illusion.
The dialectic of the dome inheres in the form of the opera house, but it is only the opera, the performance, that releases it.
The public sphere also included institutions such as coffeehouses, salons, museums and, in the case of music, the public concert hall and opera house.
No opera house in the world would begin to conceive of such a research-led, try-and-test, and work-intensive time span for its productions.
The prima donna makes the journey from above to below the opera house twice.
Penetrated by the sound, women in the opera house faint in their chairs.
These conclusions are confirmed, either directly or indirectly, by observations from the opera house.
