{"id":41,"date":"2019-09-12T17:33:31","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T17:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgepointtz.com\/?p=41"},"modified":"2020-01-25T18:28:53","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T18:28:53","slug":"opera-and-a-musical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edgepointtz.com\/musical-theatre\/opera-and-a-musical\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s The Difference between an Opera and A Musical?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The difference between opera and musical is a hazy boundary between the two.\u00a0 One thing is they come out of the same traditions of singing onstage to convey a story or drama. An opera is one of the dramatic compositions in all parts.<\/p>\n

These instrumentals are including arias, choruses, and recitations and occasionally ballet. Opera may be comic or grand. Musicals like opera are a living art form.<\/p>\n

Opera vs. musical are large-scale stage works that tell stories through singing and musical accompaniment.<\/p>\n

Opera\u2019s Characteristics<\/h2>\n

Traditional opera is created up of two modes of singing such as recitations and the aria referred to as number opera.\u00a0 An opera is called the libretto<\/a> or little book.<\/p>\n

By the 19th Century, Richard Wagner had abolished almost all distinctions between the aria and recitations and the orchestra began to take on a more important role.<\/p>\n

The switch was intended to create an endless melody.<\/p>\n

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Musical Characteristics<\/h2>\n

The musical is a stage and television or film production and it is utilizing popular style songs like dialogue optional to tell a story or showcase the talents of the writer and\/or the performer.\u00a0 It is a combination of plot, scores, singing and spoken dialogue.<\/p>\n

Most musicals are collaborative efforts with one individual writing the lyrics and the other the music. Early musicals were heavily influenced by popular burlesque shows, circuses, and vaudeville acts.<\/p>\n

This is evolving from the comic that productions can be musical, musical play, musical revue, opera, and operetta.<\/p>\n

Opera and Musical Differences<\/h2>\n

Operas and musicals are both large-scale stage works and it is enacting a drama through singing with instrumental accompaniment.<\/p>\n

The opera and musical differences lie in the manner in which text is handled.<\/p>\n

In opera, music serves as the vehicle that propels the story.<\/p>\n

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Musicals<\/a> use spoken text between song numbers.\u00a0 The text is what creates the story.\u00a0 Opera primarily is used music to move the plot along.<\/p>\n

Another difference between musicals and opera is one of the vocal styles.<\/p>\n

The style is used in musicals and it is more like popular music.<\/p>\n

In operas, there is roundness to the voices that also use vibrato.<\/p>\n

Instrumentation is also different
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While there are these differences are exceptions. Works such as those written by George Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim have been produced in both genres.<\/p>\n

The same was noted for older operettas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The difference between opera and musical is a hazy boundary between the two.\u00a0 One thing is they come out of the same traditions of singing onstage to convey a story or drama. An opera is one of the dramatic compositions in all parts. These instrumentals are including arias, choruses, and recitations and occasionally ballet. Opera…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edgepointtz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edgepointtz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edgepointtz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edgepointtz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edgepointtz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.edgepointtz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70,"href":"http:\/\/www.edgepointtz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/70"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edgepointtz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edgepointtz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edgepointtz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edgepointtz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}