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Why Opera?


Why deliver the message through the framework of an opera?
There is a surprising historic overlaps between indoor hygienic space and opera house. 


1 : Both are highly cooperative crafts

Multiple props are aggregated to give the space and performing aspects of the typologies meaning. The are arguably poetic and emotive.



2 : Both have a backstage with unseen labor

Multiple props are aggregated to give the space and performing aspects of the typologies meaning. The are arguably poetic and emotive.

1592 First Flush|  1598 First Opera

3 : Both exist in long western history creation

Both precede the onset of the industrial revolution






Chun-Li (Julie) Chen, 
University of Michigan Taubman College and Urban Planning | Architecture
Adam Chase,
University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance |  Ccomposition & Opera Performance