A Night at the Opera--See YOU TUBE

" When in one of the incomparable film farces of the Marx Brothers, an absurd sequence of events suddenly leads to the showing of an opera scene with tragic ariasm illustrated by the clumsily grandiose, old-fashioned gestures of the singers, the effect is the demolition of the tragic stage--and indeed, the clowns immediately set upon it and bring the scenery crashing down. But all this does is to highlight through garish caricature, an aspect of music that is in fact inherent in all its manifestations. It is only faith in education and cultural ideology that prevent people from mentioning it otherwise, yet it is precisely the deadly seriousness of cultured posturing, which clings obstinately to the music's dignity, that involuntarily contributes to its ridiculousness."