Report On Opera
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Opera is a glorious spectacle, a splendid but uneven fabric of music, drama, dance, poetry, and stage architecture, imperfect by nature yet endowed with magic.
-Mary Jane Matz, Opera: Grand and Not So Grand
Opera was originally a pure art, surviving on subsidies from royalty, nobility, and aristocracy. But with the opening of the first ....
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.... and grand. It has since evolved, adding new and different elements, to the point that opera now comes in all shapes, sizes, and degrees: seria, semiseria, buffa, grand, comique, Kammer, Singspiel, lyrique, light and intermezzo. Opera is today the generic term used for a variety of different pieces, ranging from: Aida, La Perichole, Night Flight, and West Side Story. With its new face and great variety, opera now has a lot more to offer to a ....
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Number of pages: 4 (approx. 250 words per double-spaced page)
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