OPERA

OPERA AND LIBRETTO

• A story told in a song
• Only a little bit of talking
• The text in the opera

GRAND OPERA AND ARIA

• An musical drama
• Tragic theme - all sung
• An expressive melody and song

COMIC OPERA AND OVERTURE

• A funny opera
• Told through a song
• A fun theme
• A composition played at the beginning of an opera prepares the audience
• Melodies play from the song in the opera

RECITATIVE AND PRIMA DONNA

• A type of song in a OPERA that resemble talking
• Expressive and can be melodious
• The leading of an female character in am opera

LEIT-MOTIF

• The leading of an theme or an musical phrase
• Describe and idea or character in the story

WHAT I LEARED

• OPERA is telling a story
• Opera is telling a tragic story
• That there lots of kinds of opera