List of basic opera topics

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Opera is one of the performing arts (alongside music, dance and drama), and its special character as an art form derives from combining elements of the others, combined with visual effects. Opera is invariably live and given in a specially-equipped opera house or theatre. It is normally (electronically) unamplified to order to feature the beauty of the natural voice. While the scale of opera can be larger or smaller - there are many different genres of opera - performance typically involves different types of artist (singers, instrumentalists and often dancers and actors) and technical staff. Usually an orchestra led by a conductor accompanies the singers. In contrast to spoken theatre, the opera world is international. German, French, Italian and English works are performed world-wide in their original languages, and artists travel from country to country performing.

The following list of topics is provided as an overview of and introduction to opera:

Contents 1 Essence of opera 2 Branches of opera 3 Genres of opera 4 History of opera 5 Basic opera concepts 5.1 Participants in opera 5.2 Basic dance concepts relevant to opera 5.3 Basic music concepts relevant to opera 5.4 Basic theatre concepts relevant to opera 6 People in opera 6.1 Opera composers, librettists, directors 6.2 Opera singers categories 7 Other opera lists 8 External links

[edit] Essence of opera

Main article: Opera

[edit] Branches of opera

English opera - French opera - German opera - Hungarian opera - Italian opera - Russian opera

[edit] Genres of opera

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[edit] History of opera

Main article: History of opera

[edit] Basic opera concepts

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[edit] Participants in opera

Opera performers are at the same time both actors and singers, and often dancers as well Audience

Composer Director Producer

Stage hand Technician

[edit] Basic dance concepts relevant to opera

Main article: List of basic dance topics

Ballet - Choreography - Dance

[edit] Basic music concepts relevant to opera

Main article: List of basic music topics

Composer - Lyrics - Music - Musical composition - Voice type - Singing - Song - Orchestra - Score - Sheet music

[edit] Basic theatre concepts relevant to opera

Main article: List of basic theatre topics

Curtain call - Prop (short for "Theatrical property") - Stage - Stagecraft (Technical theatre) - Theatrical scenery - Ticket

[edit] People in opera

[edit] Opera composers, librettists, directors

• List of major opera composers - an annotated compilation of the most frequently named composers on ten lists by opera experts.
• List of opera librettists - inclusive list of libretto writers.
• List of opera directors

[edit] Opera singers categories

Sopranos - Mezzo-sopranos - Contraltos - Countertenors - Tenors - Baritones - Bass-baritones - Basses

[edit] Other opera lists

• List of important operas - an annotated chronological list of operas which are included for their historical significance or widespread popularity (or both).
• The opera corpus - an extended list of more than 1800 works by more than 450 composers.
• List of operas - an alphabetical list by title of operas with Wikipedia articles.
• List of opera houses - lists opera houses by name (or name of performing arts centres in which they are located, if appropriate and best known that way, e.g. Kennedy Center in Washington DC).
• List of important opera companies
• List of opera festivals
• Voice type, the classification of singers by the range, weight, and color of their voices
• Glossary of music terms - list of music topics, with definitions for ease of reference
• List of Orphean operas - list of operas dealing with the myth of Orpheus

[edit] External links

• vocabulaire de l'Opéra
• OperaGlass, a resource at Stanford University
• HistoricOpera - historic operatic images
• [http://www.american.com/archive/2007/july-august-magazine-contents/america2019s-opera-boom

"America’s Opera Boom"] By Jonathan Leaf, The American, July/August 2007 Issue

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