Comments by "Mat Broomfield" (@matbroomfield) on "George Steel: The Economics of Opera" video.

@BillyWillis89 No problem, and thanks for your comments. So how do you see that an art form which by its nature is very expensive and sucks in a 100+ performers and musicians for months on end including practice time? You mentoned innovative solutions?
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@conssavvas It's called big think, not big dumb. If you want your media chopped into nice digestible baby-sized pieces, may I suggest the National Enquirer, Fox "News" or the Sun?
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@conssavvas Aha - well, in tha case, I have been helpful all along. I shall send you a bill soon! :-)
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@conssavvas You made a stupid comment mostly in Loud CAPS, finishing with the words "didn't understand what the F****** he was talking about". I have as much right to comment back to you as you had to leave your stupid comment in the first place. Stop crying like a little baby and try to learn something.
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On a channel aimed at intellectuals and thinkers, I can't believe how inane and dumb many of the comments are here.
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@conssavvas Ha ha - then why do you keep replying?
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@Ttoxcs I'm sorry but when people come onto a thinking channel and start whining that they get asked to think, it pisses me off. If they don't like the responses, they shouldn't ask others to support them.
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@BillyWillis89 I do however, recognise and agree with your characterisation that musicians are taking control of their music back from the moguls, and no bad thing Maybe that's why the media are fighting so hard to retain control of video and games distribution...
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It's no wonder that opera is so elitist if it costs 6 million dollars to put one on. I can't possibly see how such performances can possibly succeed on ticket sales alone. The length of the run, the number of seats and the maximum amount chargeable per seat limit the amount of ticket revenue, so perhaps instead of them being these two month runs put on solely for live viewers, ach one should be recorded, televised, turned in DVD and podcasts so that it can generate more revenue?
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@conssavvas Yes I was being aggressive. Don't go to a youtube channel designed to encourage people to think, and then complain that you had to think to understand it. If you want your media in very easy pieces, the rest of the media world is designed for stupid people. They can tell YOU what to think, and you will can just follow like a sheep. If you are in a hurry, don't watch something intellectually challenging.
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@conssavvas To be honest, I wouldn't start a fight in a language I can barely speak, about a video I didn't understand, and then try to be clever. Your original comment was stupid, and your follow ups have been barely understandable. You invited everyone else to follow your stupidity, and I expressed my opinion that you are an idiot. I can't control YOUR stupidity, and you can't control my response to it. If you don't like those rules, then keep your moronic opinions to yourself.
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@conssavvas YOU asked me, when you asked people to click to show that they agreed with you. I don't agree with you and told you why. You decided that this video was stupid because it was not easy enough for an idiot to understand. I pointed out that it was not the video that was at fault - it was you.
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@BillyWillis89 Lol - you completely misinterpreted my comment I said "sucks in" as in "utilises " or draws in" not "sucks" as in bad I think opera is a magnificent musical form. Some opera anyway. I have a number on CD and tape. But even if I did believe that, to conclude simply because I disliked a single musical form that my musical scope was "very limited" would be jumping to massive conclusions For the record I have over 1000 albums spanning every conceivable musical genre ;-)
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@BillyWillis89 I understand fully that opera is a performance art. In what way does that preclude recording the performance? It's an absolute disgrace that these productions are sucking in hundreds of millions of dollars in patronage when that money could accomplish so much more elsewhere. It's the very height of aloof detachment from the common man, and just one reason why perhaps, operas don't deserve to survive in their present form.
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