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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 t ....
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.... face and great variety, opera now has a lot more to offer to a younger, changing audience. Two such pieces are Rappresentatione Di Anima et di Corpo by Cavalieri, and Romeo et Juliette by Gounod.
This first piece, Rappresentatione, is a more contemporary piece, which takes on a philosophical, if not theological theme. In contrast to the traditional opera, where the scene is set at a general time and a geographical location, an Italian village, or perhaps the Spanish court, Rappresentatione takes place anywhere, at any time. Although this may seem ambiguous, th ....
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