MUSIC

• Opera – is a musical composition set to music and sung to orchestral accompaniment. It is usually characterized by elaborate costumes, scenery, and choreography
• Types of voice of singers:

  Male

  • Tenor

  • Baritone

  • Aria
• Types of voice of singers

  Female

  • Soprano

  • Mezzo-Soprano

  • Contralto

  • Coloratura

  • Lyric

  • Dramati
• A Capella – It is one or more singers performing without instrumental accompaniment.
• Falsetto – It is a weaker and more airy voice usually in the higher pitch ranges
• Recitative – is a declamatory singing, used in the prose parts and dialogue of opera
• Score – is a book that the composer and librettist put together
• Franz Peter Schubert – He is considered as the last of the Classical composers and one of the first in Romantic period.
• Giacomo Puccini – He is the composer of Madame Butterfly
• Giacomo Puccini famous operas: “La Boheme,” “Tosca,” “Madame Butterfly,” and “Turandot.”
• 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.
• Carmen – Most famous opera composition by Georges Bizet.
• Romantic Tragedy – Genre of La Traviata.
• La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi has originally in three acts, but present-day productions are usually in four acts dividing the original Act II:

  ACT I: Violetta’s Paris salon, luxuriously furnished

  ACT II: A villa near Paris

  ACT III: Ballroom in Flora’s mansion

  ACT IV: Violetta’s bedroom