Italian, German, English, Hungarian, Russian, for the most part.
Also French.
Italy was greatly affected by the Renaissance, and they were probably the ones who had a great interest in operas in the first place. Italian is also a classic language for artistic performances, as many people in opera have to learn Italian and German because many of them were written in more classic languages than English. Also, Italians like pasta and lots of it, and you need to exercise your diaphragm to belt out many of those poweful notes in Italian arias.
An opera written by the french composer, Georges Bizet.One of his most famous opera's was Carmen.
In opera, the text is written by a librettist.
Yes - try the peters edition to see if one exists in German. It is such a standard rep opera that I would imagine you could find it is several languages.
Italian2nd answerThe most common are Italian, French, German, Russian and English, but there are operas in many other languages too. Opera is an art-form, and it can be written in any language the composer wants.
An opera can be written in Italian, French, German, Russian and other languages, and it can be sung in nearly all the languages in the world.
There have been a few operas that have been written in English, but the majority by far of them have been written in other languages, most notably Italian.
The singers in an opera
In theory, it can be written in any of the 6,809 languages of the world, but most of those languages use the same written number system.
I believe they are: Spanish, Italian and German 2nd answer: The main operatic languages are Italian, French and German. There have been Spanish operas, just as there have been in English, Polish, Hungarian, Russian and many other languages; but not as many as in the three main languages.
Operas can be written in any language, but most great western operas are in Italian, German, or French, though there are some great English and Russian works. Those five languages should cover the most common opera repertoire, but lots of contemporary operas are being written in less common languages, even Klingon and Esperanto, or even a mix of languages.
Susan Sutherland has written: 'Help Me, Mummy, I Can't Breathe (Human Horizons)' 'Opera' 'Opera' -- subject(s): Opera 'Opera'
Herbert Graf has written: 'Opera for the people' -- subject- s -: Opera 'The opera and its future in America'
All known languages in India have written forms. Some may not be considered true alphabets though.
15
Italy was greatly affected by the Renaissance, and they were probably the ones who had a great interest in operas in the first place. Italian is also a classic language for artistic performances, as many people in opera have to learn Italian and German because many of them were written in more classic languages than English. Also, Italians like pasta and lots of it, and you need to exercise your diaphragm to belt out many of those poweful notes in Italian arias.
Carmen was written by Georges Bizet in France, and premiered at the Opera Comique in Paris on 3 March 1875.