MUSIC

• Art Song - Poetic in nature, Germany called "Lied." (Solo+Piano)
• Opera - Composition having all or most of its text set to music.
• Libretto - the text of an opera. It contains the story or the plot of the opera.
• Score - the book that the composer and librettist put together.
• Recitative - Declamatory singing, used in the prose parts and dialogue

  of opera.
• Aria - An air or solo singing part sung by a principal character.
• Aria - This song is what the public will remember best when leaving the opera house.
• Tenor - highest male voice.
• Baritone -Middle male voice, lies between Bass and Tenor voices. It is the common male voice.
• Bass - lowest male voice.
• Soprano - Highest Female Voice
• Coloratura - Highest Soprano Voice
• Lyric - Bright and full sound
• Dramatic - Darker full sound
• Mezzo-Soprano - Most common female voice
• Contralto - Lowest female voice and most unique among females.
• Acts - are the main divisions of the opera.
• The opera, from its very beginning, is accompanied by an instrumental

  ensemble called the orchestra.
• La Traviata - Romantic tragedy set in Paris in 1850.

  • Violetta who is the most popular high-class prostitute who married a young man, Alfredo.
• Madame Butterfly - a young Japanese geisha who believe that her arrangement with a visiting American naval officer is a permanent marriage.
• GIUSEPPE VERDI - He completed 25 operas throughout his career. His final opera ends with “all the world's a joke.”
• GIUSEPPE VERDI works: La Traviata, Rigoletto, Falstaff, Otello and Aida
• GIACOMO PUCCINI - He drew material from everyday life, rejecting heroic themes from mythology and history.
• Richard Wagner - He was an advocate of a new form of opera which he called “music drama” where musical and dramatic elements were fused together.
• GEORGES BIZET - Made "Carmen"