Amahl and the Night Visitors, by Gian Carlo Menotti. Commissioned by NBC in 1951.
The OVERTURE is the orchestral introduction to an opera.
Humlog
musical, opera maybe?
It's a musical
There are two movies. One was made without words, and was made before Andrew Lloyd Webber turned 'The Phantom of the Opera' into a musical. The second is a new movie. It has the songs and dialogue and better effects. Although some say that the newer one has gore.
A musical drama is an opera.
As it turns out, the spelling "opra" suggests two possibilities. One is the musical form known as opera. The other is the famous TV personality Oprah Winfrey.
It was through the musical innovations of the __________ that opera was born
Dark Shadows
Opera and musical theater are much alike except that musical theater generally has much more spoken dialogue than opera does.
Soap operas first appeared on radio in the 1930s as a way to promote soap products, hence the name "soap opera." The first television soap opera, "Guiding Light," debuted in 1952.
Dark Shadows was on tv from 1966 to 1971.