What is the difference a opera and a musical?

What is the difference between an opera and a musical theater?

Opera and musical theater are much alike except that musical theater generally has much more spoken dialogue than opera does.

What is difference between opera and musical?

In general, opera is entirely sung, while operettas and musicals include spoken dialog.

What is the difference between a opera and a musical?

an opera is normally full on singing and more of a simple story line a musical is more acting with music and a more complex story line

What is the difference between operas and musical?

Please rephrase - the question is unclear.Music is a part of opera. Opera is a stage play in which all the dialogue is sung with musical accompaniment. The difference is that opera needs music but music doesn't need opera.

What do you call a musical play in where all the words are sung?

musical, opera maybe?

Is cats the opera an opera?

It's a musical

What is a musical drama?

A musical drama is an opera.

The opera was born through the musical innovation call?

It was through the musical innovations of the __________ that opera was born

Is Phantom a Opera or Musical?

Phantom is a musical in broadway

Is cats an opera?

If You're wondering about the musical Cats, no it's not an opera....

What is the first musical part of an opera?

The OVERTURE is the orchestral introduction to an opera.

What is the difference between an Opera and a Musical?

To slightly alter what Western ballerina said: musical theater is a story with songs thrown in, where as an opera is a song with a story thrown in. I am a musical theater nerd at an opera nerd school (one of the reasons I am transferring lol). the type of voice used in opera is a very more trained voice. you don't have to have as much vocal training to be in musical theater.To tell you the truth I know people in MT that have gone very far with little to no training, but any opera performer has years and years of training. For the most part if you can sing opera you can sing at MT (there are always exceptions so that is not always true) but you can't necessarily be an opera singer with only a MT background. hope this helped.AddendumWhere a musical contains spoken dialogue, opera dialogue is always (almost) sung. Additionally, to add to the foregoing answer (and to risk offending some opera buffs), acting is perhaps a more important element in a musical where much of the "acting" in an opera is a function of communicating with the voice. The musical can be looked upon as a further evolution of opera, operetta etc.Opera [Opera = work]. Opera is a drama to be sung with instrumental accompaniment usually with scenery and in costume. It may include recitative or spoken dialogue, but the essence of opera is that the music is integral and is not incidental as in a 'musical' or play with music.Musical [theatre] is a form of theater combining music, songs, spoken dialogue. Usually the play [musical] is interrupted by songs or such like.So basically 'opera' is music drama and 'musical' is a play [drama] with music interludes.But like all thing to do with music there are variants.Correction to AddendumThere are several musicals that have no spoken dialogue (e.g., Les Miserables, Phantom of the Opera and Evita).