Audiences could be quite noisy before the beginning of the opera, due in part to
a. the fact that the music they were about to hear was new and not a cherished and respected masterwork.
b. people regarded the opera as a social event.
c. they were a lower class and did not know how to act.
d. both a and b.
D
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