Brasilia Cathedral at night.<\/p><\/div>\n

– But what is it that defines contemporary opera as such?<\/p>\n

– What is it that makes it an independent style \/ form \/ performance \/ proposition \/ ritual?<\/p>\n

– If one can cry at the sight of a cathedral, or sitting through a movie…How relevant does a work\u00a0need to aim to be to fit in a class that may elicit to create such radical emotions?<\/p>\n

– How radical can our emotions be? in which ways?\u00a0 Emotions covering paths that we don’t even want to experience in real life, yet may be conceived and perceived through opera…<\/p>\n

The power and expression of the human voice taken to the extremes.<\/p>\n

– Or is it a set of purely technical characteristics that may define the genre today?<\/p>\n

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