The met opera2/17/2023 Building on Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, Weill’s Dreigroschenoper, Carlyle Floyd’s Susannah, and other precursors, they use conservative classical music techniques to weave together snippets of church hymns, musical theater, world music, film music, jazz, blues, pop and other vernacular styles – often to set plots taken from movies, popular culture or current events. They are either “popularist” or “modernist.” Today, with post-romanticism and minimalism in decline, most new operas fall into one of two categories.
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