Opera is a western musical art form that is a blend of music, dance, and drama. The dialogue of an opera performance consists solely of singing and no spoken dialogue and is typically performed in an opera house. Light opera is a short amusing musical production that usually has a happy ending and mixes in spoken dialogue along with song. Musical theater is a combination of of songs, spoken dialogue, and dance. It is often referred to as a "musical". The major difference between musicals and the operas is that it gives equal importance to the music as well as the dialogue and movement. In operas, the main character is usually a singer and only a singer with a secondary singer. In musicals the main character is usually an actor first and then becomes a singer and a dancer.
2. How long does it take for someone to have a fully trained operatic voice?
To be able to sing opera takes a lot of time and practice. It takes a major toll on your voice as well as your body because of all the effort you put into becoming a trained opera singer. You can start training your operatic voice at a young age and then work until you have succeeded in getting a musical education. Most opera singers have a musical education. An opera singer must also learned the proper vocal techniques to prevent themselves from getting any damage to their vocal chords. You can learn how to sing opera at any age and and it takes many years in actually succeeding in becoming a fully trained opera singer with a lot of devotion.
3. Choose an Opera by Puccini? Describe and interpret.
Puccini started learning opera at a young age and for his first opera he chose the subject of Manon Lescaut, which ended up making him famous in Italy as an operatic composer. After that, he continued working to compose La Boheme, which is considered his masterpiece. Today, La boheme is one of the most popular operas internationally, and is the second most frequent opera performed in the United States. The opera's plot is based off of a novel, "Scenes de la vie de Boheme" written by Henri Muger. The story of the opera is set in Italy, where two young people meet, one a seamstress named Mimi and another a poet named Rodolfo. When they first meet, they immediately fall in love. But later on Rodolfo wants to end it because Mimi had such flirtacious behavior. But Rodolfo comes to find that Mimi is deathly ill and feels guilt towards her because she became increasingly ill from their lives together. At the end of the play, Mimi and Rodolfo reunite with each other right before her death. Puccini had composed this opera with characters that live realistic lives based on love, envy, and loss.
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