When I was a young college student I studied German, history, and art in Vienna, Austria. Earlier, I had gained some appreciation for opera. Living a couple of blocks away from the Viennese Opera House, I found myself seeing an opera or two every week. I went stehplatz (standing room), that cost me around 20 cents, sitting with other Austrian students in the hall waiting to be let in and the performances to begin.
I attended the University of Vienna as part of an American travel-abroad program. When the school year began, I was almost the only American student attending the operas. As the year progressed other Americans gradually joined so that by the end of the school year there were scores of us. Many had become avid opera-goers and had learned to clap vigorously and yell âbravoâ to the singers, who had become their idols. Thanks to Michael Ballam, we have interest in opera in Logan. I would suggest that we might âgrowâ more interest in art . if we had a art mu