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Operas & Operettas

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opus	work
opera	drama through music
polyphony	several different lines of music played or sung at one time
court masques	ekaborate dramas based on mythology or fables
Jacopo Peri	first opera
first opera	Dafne
Claudio Monteverdi	blended the music a poetry of the libretto to create a multi-faceted theatrical form
opera seria	opera based on history or mythology
opera buffa	comic opera
Mozart	The Marriage of Figaro
verisimo	"real" opera
Puccini	La Boheme
maestro	orchestra conductor
vibrato	Italian "to vibrate"
counter tenor	highest male range
tenor	high male range
baritone, bass baritone	mid male range
bass (basso profundo)	low male range
coloratura soprano	highest female range
soprano	high female range
mezzo soprano	mid female range
contralto	low female range
Jacques Offenbach	creator of the operetta
operetta	originated in Paris
opera	originated in Italy
Johann Strauss II	Die Fledermaus
Gilbert & Sullivan	Pirates of Penzance

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