I Don't Like the Section He's Making Sweeping Claims About Opera

opera is like it's practically crushed under the weight of its own pretensions today, says koffman. Koffman: Opera isn't a cultural style that really holds relevance to us today. He compares  the form of opera to the new attic ditheram and he sees in german music from bach to betovan and from betovan devogner this sort of rebirth of the dianissian or at least the potential for something which is the reawakening of theDianissian spirit.