/lit/ - Literature

>>22092858
It's actually pretty funny etymologically that you both accuse me of trannyism and hysteria

>>22009151
Ballet has a higher barrier of entry and is still gatekept by aesthetic conservatives of the upper classes, whereas everyone can slap together a stage and do theatre on it. As for opera getting a crummy aesthetic, I haven't seen much of it, but then again I rarely go to the opera, mostly when I am in Vienna (usually once a year).

>>22009301
I saw the Zauberflöte at the Royal Albert Hall during the proms some years back, and some of the stage direction was hilariously designed to be popular. The part where Papageno and Papagena have found each other and are to establish a nice, bourgeois little family, had Papageno dry-humping Papagena from behind, behind an oven on the stage - the oven then opened and started shooting out dolls of babies with cannon-like force, one after the other, with so much power that one of the baby-dolls had its limbs ripped off mid-flight. It was all very good fun, but clearly designed to satisfy whatever Norf F.C. types had been dragged into the hall by their wives with bachelor's degrees.

>>20336128
'ate profestan's
'ate anglicanism
'ate modernity
Ate me misses pork pie
luv me misses
luv pork pies
luv jesus
simple as