Opera, a really distinctive form of art which combines music and theatre while its plot is revealed through the singed dialogues, called liberetto. This means that the actors perform with the constant accompaniment of an orchestra and other seperate instruments. acts, The singers are divided in various categories according to their voice type, first of all between female and male voices. There are three types of female voices, contralto that covers the lowest range, mezzo soprano the middle notes and soprano or treble, singing the highest ones. The corresponding male voices are bass, barritone and tenor as well as countertenor who covers the highest possible notes a man can reach.
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Famous Opera Houses
Sydney Opera House
It is located on the foreshore of Sydney Harbour New South Wales, Australia. The Opera House opened its doors in 1973 after 16 years of construction. The building has been awarded several times for its innovative architecture, for example the National Award for Enduring Architecture. In 2000 it hostewd part of the Summer Olympics and it became a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The architercture of the building is modern with expressionistic designs. The capacity of the opera house is 5,738 people which constists of the 6 venues of the Opera, the largest one , the Concert Hall, seating 2,679. The roof is made of a series of large precast concrete "shells", 2 of 194 concrete sections weighing up to 15 tons each. The height of the roof reaches up to 67 metres above sea-level, the same as that of a 22-storey building.
Oslo Opera House
In the capital city of Norway, the Oslo Opera House is located. The building hosts the Norwegian Opera and Ballet and its hexagonal shape reminds the melting ice, an unique idea of its architects serving their desire to combine the Oslo Fjord and the urban character of the city in order to create a new landscape. The modern architecture of the building is remarkable and the main auditorium can seat up to 1,364 spectators. The building also contains two other performance halls which are much smaller. It offers a great variety of amazing operas by the opera orchestra.
Hungarian State Opera House
The Hungarian State Opera House is located in Budapest, capital city of Hungary. It was funded by the city of Budapest and by Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria-Hungary and after 9 years of construction, it opened to the public on the 27 September 1884. It is the second largest opera house in Hungary. Many important artists have attended as well as the composer Gustav Mahler who was the director for several years. A major renovation ordered by the State of Hungary started in 1980. The reopening was held on the 27 September 1984, exactly 100 years after the first opening. The opera house hosts the Budapest Opera Ball and the Hungarian National Ballet. The building was designed in neo-Renaissance style, with elements of Baroque as we see from the heavy and costly decorations. The quality of acoustics and the beauty of Hungarian State Opera House are considered amongst the finest ones of opera houses in the world. In front of the building are statues of two significant and world-known Hungarian composers, Ferenc Erkel and Franz Liszt.
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Opera Composers and world-wide known Works
There are many great composers throughout every era of opera's history who wrote remarkable works that are still played and also adapted in modern standards. Such composers are
- Pucchini and one of his most famous work Madama Butterfly, 1904
- Verdi's music for Aida, 1871
- Bizet and his music for the opera Carmen, 1875
- Wagner with his music and liberetto for the Flying Dutchman, 19th century
- But also Mozart and two of his most popular opera compositions The Magic Flute, 1791 and The Marriage of Figaro, 1786
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