Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera opened at Her Majesty's Theatre in London on October 9, 1986, and is still playing.
Opera has always been 'popular'.
The Opera Populaire.
Rock Opera
The person best viewed as the first master of opera was Claudio Monteverdi. He was born in 1569 and died in 1643. He wrote the first opera in the early 1600's.
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The cast of Monteverdis Musen - Im Herzen der Nacht - 2012 includes: Sophie Rois as Claudia Monteverdi
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1909 by Gaston Leroux
The Opera was first published nearly 100 years ago in France in 1909. There have been many versions of the opera in the mid 1900s and the famous film came out in 2004.
Opera house of the year was created in 1994.
Opera began projects to release a mobile internet device as early as 1998. In 2000 Opera came out with Opera 4.0 that could be used on many operating systems and platforms.
the year 1996, if you mean the web-browser named Opera.Second replyMusical Opera was created in Italy in the late-16th century. The first opera is generally thought to be Dafne, by Jacopo Peri. The music for this opera has been lost. The earliest opera for which we have the music and which receives occasional performances is L'Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi, first performed in Mantua, Italy, in 1607.
In 1776 the waltz was first danced in the opera Una Cosa Rara.
1901 is the year of death for the composer of the opera La Traviata. The composer in question was Giuseppe Verdi (October 9/10, 1813 - January 27, 1901). The first performance was in 1853, a year after the French language source upon which the opera is based was published.
It is my understanding that HAIR is the first rock opera.
i believe 1986/88 was the first time it showed in broadway