Top Ten: Opera’s Most Common Stereotypes?

OperaPulse fans, you have created our Top Ten list!  We’ve compiled your comments from Facebook, Twitter and through interviews to provide the answer to March 10th’s question:

What are the most common stereotypes that accompany opera?

10. I can’t follow – it is all in different languages!

9. It’s just screaming.

8. My brown hair won’t fit in the sea of white.

7. There’s no acting, “park and bark.”

6. It’s too expensive!

5. It’s too long!

4. Really boring stories.

3. Too many divas (the modern definition).

2. Too highbrow, elitist, stuffy.

1. The horns, the helmet, the breast plate, and the singing fat lady.