Many years ago I've been promoted to Opera lover, and discovered that I still have not heard 95% of the music that has been written in the form of Opera, and will probably die before hearing and seeing a 20%. This is a whole world of combinations of visual, musical, performing, plastic arts, of which you can't see much, just by listening to a CD or radio.

Go to see it at the theatre (Opera House). Avoid "popular" versions performed in stadiums or open air or inappropiate rooms aided by electric amplification. Opera is expensive because it is acoustic and can't be performed for more than 2,000 people in the world's largest theatres.

If you find that some fragments are boring, just take them as an introduction to those you really like. Enjoy those songs that move you, and gradually you will see the opera as a whole.

Choose the lightest works, easy to listen to. Bizet, Gilbert&Sullivan, Gershwin, and then Mozart, Puccini, Cilea, Leoncavallo, Verdi. Don't try Wagner or Britten at first.

In my humble opinion, the appreciation of music forms is not simply a matter of taste, it is a process of maturing. A baby will vomit if we give him a pepperoni pizza (not to mention a Bouillabaise).

Un abrazo,
Andrés