The plot of the movie Freaks is your modern day soap opera. Cleopatra marries for money, slowly poisons her husband in order to run away with Hercules. She then is punished by the freaks and ends up a human duck.
Camelia la Tejana is about a woman who smuggled drugs into America and then shot and killed her lover in a jealous rage. This is a famous Mexican opera.
Verdi composed the opera 'Otello' There is also an 'Otello' by Rossini. It's much less well-known, but it gets the occasional performance and there are recordings.
Opera Seria and Opera Buffa
Zimin Opera ended in 1917.
orfeo
Orfeo
ORFEO
Monteverdi's Orfeo
[1] L'Orfeo was composed by Claudio Monteverdi. [2] Orfeo ed Euridice was composed by Christoph Willibald Gluck.
Opera evolved rather than started. One could say it evolved from Claudio Monteverdi's 'Orfeo' in 1607.
La clemenza di Tito Orfeo ed Euridice
The premier artist for the role of Orfeo was Guadagni Gaetano and Castrato Alto. Nowadays it is sung by an Alto (female) the best in recent years being Kathleen Ferrier (a brief but brilliant career)
Verismo is a type of opera that involves rustic characters and a melodramatic plot.
Orfeo - Rossi - was created in 1647.
Orfeo - Sartorio - was created in 1672.
Orfeo Boselli died in 1667.