Ray Bayles:

>I would say it depends on the opera.  There are such huge numbers of them.
>And some are as intellectual as any other classical music in my opinion...
>Stravinsky's Berg's. ...

I started out as a perfect opera snob- only Don Giovanni and Boris
Goudonov were worthy of my attention. This pantheon left a few things out -
all the works of Verdi, Wagner, and Strauss, just to name  more than a few.
Oh well, I was young.

Bernard Chasan