What is Opera Music?

Introduction

History of Opera

Types of Opera:-

• Italian opera

• German opera

• French opera

• Russian opera

Who I Am

Opera is an art formwhich joins singing,drama and music. Theperformance is given inopera house. It is a keypart of western classicalmusic which started inItaly in the end of thesixteenth century. Thewords of an opera areknown as ‘libretto’.

Opera is a Italian wordwhich means ‘‘work’’. Itis derived from LatinOpera. It was first used asa composition in whichmusic, dance and poetryis combined. ‘Dafne’ wasthe first compositionconsidered Opera asunderstood today aroundin 1597.

• ITALIAN OPERA

• GERMAN OPERA

• FRENCH OPERA

• RUSSIAN OPERA

This is an art of operain Italy and opera inItalian language. Inthe year of 1600 operawas born in Italy.Famous operas areperformed across theworld in operahouses.

The first ever German operawas crated by Heinrich in1627, but the music has notsurvived. In 1644 famousopera was produced bySigmund. The most famousGerman language opera was‘Die Fledermaus’ which isstill performing in the operahouses.

French operawas founded bythe Italian whosename is Jean –Baptiste. Thisopera is popularin all theEuropeancountry. It alsoperformed inopera houses.

Opera came to Russia in1730s by the Italian. Thecomposers from othercountries were invitedto Russia for a newoperas and domesticcomposers were sent toother countries to learnto write new opearas inRussian language.

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