One of the problems that we face through the media attention that these artists receive is that there has been an awful lot of talk about opera and classical music being elite and being for an elitist group.
When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.
I believe as a born-again Christian that once you've had a chance to drink from the well, it becomes your responsibility to replenish the well.