Carmen is based on a story first written in the 1850s. Carmen was first performed in 1875. The era is sometimes known as Victorian times, especially in western culture.
Read more about Carmen, below.
Opera began at the end of the Renaissance and has been developing ever since.
That depends on the opera and the era it was written in. Broadly speaking, a chorus is any substantial group who act more or less as one. They can give the history to an event so the opera does not have to elaborate by showing the event. They are usually set as a group - examples being - Beethoven's Fidelio as the prisoners, Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana as the villagers, Bizet's Carmen as the factory girls etc.
Opera itself has not changed that much. People still dress up, go to the opera, and the dominant demographic is still people over 40. The music in the operas, however, has changed drastically since the early operas of the Baroque Era. I could write a novel about the shift in operatic music from the Baroque Era to Classical to Romantic and then to 20th Century and post-modern repertoire. But, audiences still seem to receive operas well regardless of what time they were composed.
The Elizabethan era.
Music written during the Renaissance, approximately 1400 - 1600. While defining the actual dates of the era is difficult, opera did not actually exist then. Towards the end of the era, the early dramatic ancestors of opera existed - for example, the madrigal comedy and the Intermedio. Madrigal comedy is a term for a kind of entertainment in which groups of related madrigals were sung consecutively. These generally told a story, sometimes with a loose dramatic plot. It is an important element in the origins of opera. [A madrigal is a type of secular vocal music composition] The Intermedio, or intermezzo, was a theatrical spectacle with music, often with dance which was performed between the acts of a play. Both of these were important predecessors to opera showing element of / in the origins of opera.
Romantic.
Georges Bizet was a Romantic era composer best known for his opera 'Carmen'. He also wrote a superb symphony called 'Roma', which is unfortunately hard to find on CD, but worth the effort.
There was opera and it attended often
Opera began at the end of the Renaissance and has been developing ever since.
The Middle Era.
That depends on the opera and the era it was written in. Broadly speaking, a chorus is any substantial group who act more or less as one. They can give the history to an event so the opera does not have to elaborate by showing the event. They are usually set as a group - examples being - Beethoven's Fidelio as the prisoners, Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana as the villagers, Bizet's Carmen as the factory girls etc.
Opera itself has not changed that much. People still dress up, go to the opera, and the dominant demographic is still people over 40. The music in the operas, however, has changed drastically since the early operas of the Baroque Era. I could write a novel about the shift in operatic music from the Baroque Era to Classical to Romantic and then to 20th Century and post-modern repertoire. But, audiences still seem to receive operas well regardless of what time they were composed.
The Elizabethan era.
Era
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Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Monteverdi and Purcell.
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