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Opera seria

-"Serious"


-Recitatives and arias designed to display virtuosity of start singers


- sung in Italian no matter what


- stories of gods

Christoph Gluck ?

(1714-1787)



Made seria opera more realistic and simpler

Opera

A play set to music, with scenery, costumes, props, special effects, accompanied by an orchestra

Opera buffa in france

Opera comique

Opera buffa in germany

Singspiel

England

Ballad opera


Dialogue opera


Comic opera

Opera buffa

Sung in audience's language


Spoken dialogue


Lively downtoearth plots


Humorous dialogue


Entertainment for middle class

Mozart?

Marriage of figaro



Nobility sing opera seria style


Lower class more folk like


Servants have a "patter"



Had the ability to depict a character and develop it through music

Marriage of figaro

Banned by king Louis XVI



Most successful work in Mozart's lifetime

Mozarts librettist?

Lorenzo da Ponte



Wrote text for marriage of figaro and don Giovanni

Mass?

Catholic Church


No sets or costumes


Religious

Requiem

Musical setting for the mass for the dead

Oratorio

No sets or costumes


Based on biblical story