In a now notorious interview, actor Timothée Chalamet declared he only wanted to work in a creative field people valued. He was not keen on an art form like opera, “where it’s like, ‘Hey, keep this thing alive, even though no one cares about this anymore’.”
His comments predictably triggered a backlash across the opera industry – and some say they contributed to him losing this year’s Best Actor Oscar race. What should the rest of us make of the fuss?
This is the kind of question Melbourne-based opera expert Caitlin Vincent sets out to help answer in her new book, Opera Wars.
