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Opera is a form of theatrical performance in which all of the action is communicated by music. Developed in Florence during the Italian Renaissance, operas are played in 140 festivals each year.
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Fast Facts
- The first opera was called Dafne written by Jacopo Peri and performed for the Florentine Camerata in 1597.
- The earliest operas were tied to the pre-Lenten festival of Carnival, and were most often based on Greek tragedies
- The earliest operas were not sung, but rather chanted, in a form of free declamation or recitative, which was thought close to Greek tragic forms
- Castrati were used in operas beginning with Orfeo, an opera by Claudio Monteverdi performed for the first time in 1607
- The first public opera house, Teatro San Cassiano, opened in Venice in 1641.
- Christoph Willibald Gluck is given credit for the reformation of opera, making all of the music part of the story
- Opera comique (or opera buffa) invented in Naples in early 18th century
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akhirnya...stelah skian lama......tune in to opera music.. =) nighty night!
@KuntiDewanggani | November 12, 2009 02:43 PM -
When music class went along to concerts at the Opera House I used to sit there and wonder what it would be like if filled with playpen balls
@duncm | November 12, 2009 01:17 PM -
Zeronin http://bit.ly/2ctJBA by Opera Eftos #music #opera #classic
@audiofarm | November 12, 2009 12:02 PM
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