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opera seria
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opera seria

Type of opera distinct from opera buffa, or humorous opera. Common in the 17th and 18th centuries, it tended to treat classical subjects in a formal style, with most of the singing being by solo voices. Examples include many of Handel's operas based on mythological subjects.



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The classic Italian definition of opera is dramma per musica.
Attitudes by Barnes, Clive / Dance Magazine
The study of the one hundred and fifty or so works written during Rosand's chronological span is essentially a study of a genre which, as its usual name dramma per musica implies, was literary before it was musical.
Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice: The Creation of a Genre by Fenlon, Iain / Renaissance Quarterly
From his earliest days with Pineapple Poll, adapted from Gilbert & Sullivan, Cranko saw ballet, like opera, as dramma per musica, and in this way, had he live, he would certainly have, exerted a profound influence on ballet companies during the last three decades of the century.
A lost leader by Barnes, Clive / Dance Magazine
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