Opera! Haters gonna hate. Mark Twain once said, "I know of no agony comparable to the listening to an unfamiliar opera… that sort of intense but incoherent noise which always so reminds me of the time the orphan asylum burned down.” Mr. Herron's response was not as fierce but he brought along a list of reasons why opera can oftentimes feel unapproachable. Mr. Somers, a fan, breaks down the mystery of opera, this time with examples of English language operas from Barber, Westergaard, and Copland. He even sneaks in a track of an English translation of The Valkyrie.

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