Opera, the Composite Art of Music I like to read a novel, and one of my favorites is “The Children of the Rune.” At the middle part of the story, the main character who has a great talent for music attempts to make an opera named ‘Maximilien’ for his travel cost. It was the first time I encountered an opera, one of the most famous musical genres as a part of the novel. I was 9 years old when I read that novel; therefore, I did not know the exact meaning of ‘Opera’ at that time. What I just knew about an opera is that it is associated with music and is quite luxurious and complex activity because at last, the main character succeeded to earn a lot of money from a noble people through the effort of many professional, specialist musicians around
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The interesting point of ‘Eurydike’ is that the story of the opera was changed from its original myth. In the original myth of Eurydike, Orpheus failed to rescue Eurydike and murdered at last; however, since this opera had to perform for the noble people, the writer of this opera, Ottavio Rinucci’ni, changed its finale to the happy ending. After the 17th century, opera started to spread out from Italia to the overall Europe. In this period, Mozart composed ‘Don Giovanni’ and ‘The Marriage of Figaro’ and Beethoven composed ‘Fidelio’, the only one opera in his life. In the 19th century, opera also influenced by nationalism; moreover, at the same time, two great composers, Wagner and Verdi, composed numerous great operas like ‘Tristan and Isolde,’ ‘La Traviata,’ ‘Otello,’ ‘Ring of the Nibelungs’ and so on. The music of the opera consists of three parts: a soloist, chorus, and orchestra. The first part, soloist, usually divided into recitativo and aria. The difference between recitativo and aria is quite simple; recitativo shows the situation of that scene, but aria expresses the emotions of the characters; moreover, there are other types of soloist too: Cavatina, Romance, and Serenade. The second part, chorus, usually act the crowd of the opera and sometimes
The interesting point of ‘Eurydike’ is that the story of the opera was changed from its original myth. In the original myth of Eurydike, Orpheus failed to rescue Eurydike and murdered at last; however, since this opera had to perform for the noble people, the writer of this opera, Ottavio Rinucci’ni, changed its finale to the happy ending. After the 17th century, opera started to spread out from Italia to the overall Europe. In this period, Mozart composed ‘Don Giovanni’ and ‘The Marriage of Figaro’ and Beethoven composed ‘Fidelio’, the only one opera in his life. In the 19th century, opera also influenced by nationalism; moreover, at the same time, two great composers, Wagner and Verdi, composed numerous great operas like ‘Tristan and Isolde,’ ‘La Traviata,’ ‘Otello,’ ‘Ring of the Nibelungs’ and so on. The music of the opera consists of three parts: a soloist, chorus, and orchestra. The first part, soloist, usually divided into recitativo and aria. The difference between recitativo and aria is quite simple; recitativo shows the situation of that scene, but aria expresses the emotions of the characters; moreover, there are other types of soloist too: Cavatina, Romance, and Serenade. The second part, chorus, usually act the crowd of the opera and sometimes