The world's first opera house was built in Venice, Italy, in 1637.
It was called " Orfeo " and is considered to be a masterpiece. Opera became a true art form across Western Europe during the Baroque period, which stretched from about 1600 to 1750.Īn Italian composer named Claudio Monteverdi composed the first great Baroque opera in 1607. Called " Dafne, " it was written in 1597.
A member of the group, Jacopo Peri, composed what is believed to be the world's first opera. "The terms mean drama for music or musical work. The Camerata called their compositions " drama per musical' or "opera in musica. The Camerata then took stories from ancient Greek and Roman history and mythology and told them with music. Called the Camerata, the group decided that Greek drama had been meant to be sung rather than spoken. A number of poets, musicians and noblemen at that time became interested in Greek culture. The world's first opera was written and staged in Florence, Italy, in the 1590s. The opera usually tells a highly emotional story and often features such passions as anger, cruelty, jealousy, joy love, sadness or triumph. Operettas and musical comedies are a bit like operas, except they have much more spoken dialogue and their music is lighter. It not only brings together acting, singing and the ballet, or some other type of dancing, and it also uses fine orchestral music, costumes and often spectacularly complicated scenery and stage settings. Many consider the musical drama to be the most complex of all our art forms. Sara Stewart, age 11, of Hennessey, Okla., for her question: WHERE DID OPERA ORIGINATE?
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