Each of the following arguments involves a weakness, although it may take careful analysis to identify the precise nature of the weakness. Find the weakness within this argument: I have attended several operas, and I always come away with the same reaction, which is that opera is a vastly over$-$rated art form. The plots could never be described as great literature, and some are as bad as any TV melodrama. Even when performed superbly, the music itself is always a mixture of good and mediocre, usually more mediocre than good. The costumes and the staging are often well done, but the whole experience is always destroyed for me by the atrocious acting. Why can singers never learn to act? The fact that opera lovers always seem to be unaware of these drawbacks is a great mystery to me$.$