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Opera buffa
In Italian, opera buffa, in French, opéra comique.
Opera Seria is a serious or tragic opera, and Opera Buffa is a comic opera. Other than that there are more differences between operas of different periods than between the serious and the comic operas.
Generally, a program. Booklets containing the text of the opera are called librettos (or libretti in Italian).
Libretto. Italian for "little book."
Opera buffa
In Italian, opera buffa, in French, opéra comique.
Opera Seria is a serious or tragic opera, and Opera Buffa is a comic opera. Other than that there are more differences between operas of different periods than between the serious and the comic operas.
Italian comic and French serious opera.
Generally, a program. Booklets containing the text of the opera are called librettos (or libretti in Italian).
Libretto. Italian for "little book."
Solo performances in opera are called arias from the Italian word for "air".
The opera with the subtitle of "The Lass that Loved a Sailor" is "H.M.S Pinafore," by William S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. If was first performed in 1879 and continues to be performed today. It is more correctly categorized as a light opera, or comic opera, to distinguish it from the often tragic pieces called Grand Opera.
Conversational singing in opera is called recitative. It is very frequent in Mozart's Italian operas, where the entire opera is sung, so the recitative is meant to act as a form of sung dialogue.
It depends on the country or libretto (play or story used). It can be 'opera buffo' (Italian),m 'Opera Comique' (French) or 'Comic Opera' (English). also sometimes called 'Light Opera' in English speaking countries.
Italian opera mainly focused on the voice not the music.The style was known as bel canto.There are less instruments used in italian opera compared to german opera.German opera often employed "singspiel" which is spoken not sung words.The melody in italian opera was more melosmatic and more syllabic in german opera.
'opera' is Italian for 'work' and an abbreviation of 'opera in musica'.