Opera (Week 4)

Reference: OxfordMusicOnline

Place Characteristic: Morra, I. (n.d.). The rise of English Opera. Retrieved March 20, 2018, from https://books.google.nl/books?id=osaXCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT9&dq=The+Rise+of+English+Opera&hl=nl&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi23cH89_vZAhVLPFAKHZm9DpwQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=The%20Rise%20of%20

Extract: "English is likely to become of increasing importance as one of the key operatic languages" (White, A History of English Opera 437). Most important to this recognition of twentieth-century British opera is the perception of Britian as the site of one, if not two, concerted renaussances of opera in the twenthieth century.

Creative Comment: It is very beautiful to tell a story in music and performance. I think it is great to tell the story in the vernacular of the people. The emotions are better to understand this way.