EconTalk   /     Weep, Shudder, Die: The Secret of Opera Revealed (with Dana Gioia)

Summary

How can opera, with words we rarely understand, make us cry? Why does opera, filled with melodrama, move us? Listen as poet and librettist Dana Gioia explains to EconTalk's Russ Roberts why words matter more than we think, in both opera and on Broadway.

Subtitle
How can opera, with words we rarely understand, make us cry? Why does opera, filled with melodrama, move us? Listen as poet and librettist Dana Gioia explains to EconTalk's Russ Roberts why words matter more than we think, in both opera and on Broadway.
Duration
01:18:46
Publishing date
2025-01-20 11:30
Link
https://www.econtalk.org/weep-shudder-die-the-secret-of-opera-revealed-with-dana-gioia/
Contributors
  EconTalk: Russ Roberts
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Enclosures
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Shownotes

How can opera, with words we rarely understand, make us cry? Why does opera, filled with melodrama, move us? Listen as poet and librettist Dana Gioia explains to EconTalk's Russ Roberts why words matter more than we think, in both opera and on Broadway.