Arts of the theater - history of the opera

In 1600s the opera began to prosper in Italy. The French opera was popular to add the element of the dance to the opera except the already existing elements such as song and music. In Italian, the works of means of the opera and in Latin mean the plural one of the work. This means that it can have pair, trio, and song of the group. Also it uses several aspects of the spoken theater, as the suit and the context.

The Greek was the first well-known people of the artists of the theater especially of Athens. Their games of the theater included all the elements like the action, dialogs, the song, the scene, the dance, the refrain and music. This art was cultivated by diverse civilizations that had few or all the elements. One of them was the opera. The western Classical Art of the theater that implies the transport with the song and the dance and not with dialogs, are known like opera. The composition of Jacopo Peri, Dafne, was written in 1597 and was the first composition known meant specifically for the opera although outside inspired by the Greek arts of the theater, but it exists not more. The composition of Euridice de Peri written in 1600s was the first registered composition that is available until this date.

The operations are most of the times accompanied by the refrain and instrumental music. The libreto is the word in opera and has been the great composers who have written libretos famous like Richard Wagner. Handel was the famous German composer who wrote for the theaters in England. Mozart and Lorenzo GIVE Ponte are famous by the great musical works that were played during the operations of the opera.

There are two types of song in opera. The first one is recitative in which history is being narrated in a style of the not-melodies and the second is Aryan, where the executants were more tuneful. The refrain is used sometimes like commentator and like narrator. The subcategories of recitative are secco or recitative dry and Accompagnato or Stromentato in which the orchestra accompanies the operation. The opera can be classified thorough more like comique of singspiel, the opereta, the semi-opera and the opera. In these types of opera, the dialogs are used in the opposite, instead of recitative. Arioso is also replaced by the semi-melodic steps.

The opera began with operations of the court and later it changed from position to the real theaters. In 1637 east operation he was open to the public when the idea of the festival of the opera in Venice was removed to collation by Monteverdi. Then barroca was well-known like opera that had a mixture of the tragic and humorous elements along with a certain education. This began a reform that was promoted by the Arcadian academy of Venice. Metastasio was a part of this academy and his libertti got to be famous until the end of century XVIII in Italian opera. And this mixed with opera barroca was well-known like buffa of the opera.

The characteristic of the Serious opera is that it had a high tone along with the class of secco of recitative. Greatly stylized was had taste due to high her the form and the singers at that time were very popular and the Serious opera was in great demand all to over Europe except France. The hero had the voice of the castrato as Farinelli and Senesino and the heroins had the voice of the soprano as Faustina Bordoni. Alexander Scarlatti, Porpora and Vivaldi were some of the great composers of Serious of the opera.

But the Serious opera had few escapes. It concentrated more in left drama and music, song and ballet behind. He was Francisco Algarotti who brought behind to all this elements with his test of the composition in the opera. Rightest, Gluck then followed other great composers such as Niccolo Jommelli, Traetta Takings and. He used the rich orchestra and vocal lines and brought a reform in the Serious opera.