Technical excellence often strips emotional connection - ask any surgeon, or rather anyone who has to work with them.
Opera is often guiltier of this than, well, say, pop for example. It's the impurites that make a diamond one than has been naturally mined rather than created artificially under huge external pressures.
Why else do a diminishing number of people tune into The Voice and yet millions tolerate Paul McCartney screeching and shouting pastiches of his own songs in a Jubilee special.
Because ........it's not the voice.
It's the connection.
It's the history - the back catalogue of shared experience.
Ballet is another.
Those poor toes.
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