In all sincerity Anon, I liked an opera. Once. I had never heard the story idea before, the stallion lead had this gorgeous deep voice that rumbled in the floor beneath my hooves almost as much as my own chest, and the mare lead wasn't trained on just high notes. This was back when star-crossed lovers hadn't been done to death, mind you. Unfortunately that was a long time ago and, well, it turns out sponsoring something new and interesting once means if you stop sponsoring it, you've expressed a great many silly ideas about what you support and the direction art is going and the value of art in modern society and all of that nonsense. 