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My first opera outing was Götterdämmerung ... marvelous introduction to the art. I highly recommend Wagner, as well as Mozart. A few Italians dabbled in the form as well.
It is nearly impossible to understate the value of Wikipedia: immediate access to (usually) accurate information about an incredible range of topics is helping move our species to a more elevated another place.
I think the insight here is not that books have too much information, but that, in a sea of information overload, it is getting increasingly easier to instantly find what you are looking for and then graze from there. And for this latter capability, Google's (ongoing) role is also hard to underestimate.
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