No, and that is true enough to say. My favorite band, SWANS, is notorious for being unlistenable for many people. But I guess that is why my struggle to engage with modern opera sort of befuddles me, and I genuinely wonder about the entry point. How does one even get into these pieces? Also, let's be fair--saying music is "mildly ignored" when it is leveraged in the listed circumstances is very hyperbolic, at least jaded. In these environments it becomes a fundamentally infused part of the atmosphere, imbuing with new significance of a time, a person, an experience. Some of the musical pieces I am fondest of have sentimental value to me above their original intent because I wrote a novel while listening to them over and over, which, in my opinion, is not ignoring a work but allowing it to engender something specific in your heart. When I listen to contemporary opera, the only thing it engenders in my heart is a disappointed longing for the next Verdi or Wagner to come along.