Salzburg, Austria

Opera and Musical Theatre

Oper und Musiktheater

Master's
Language: GermanStudies in German
Subject area: arts
Qualification: MA
Master of Arts, MA
4 Semester
120 ECTS
University website: www.uni-mozarteum.at
Musical
Musical may refer to:
Musical Theatre
Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance. The story and emotional content of a musical – humor, pathos, love, anger – are communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an integrated whole. Although musical theatre overlaps with other theatrical forms like opera and dance, it may be distinguished by the equal importance given to the music as compared with the dialogue, movement and other elements. Since the early 20th century, musical theatre stage works have generally been called, simply, musicals.
Opera
Opera (Italian: [ˈɔːpera]; English plural: operas; Italian plural: opere [ˈɔːpere]) is a form of theatre in which music has a leading role and the parts are taken by singers. Such a 'work' (the literal translation of 'opera') is typically a collaboration between a composer and a librettist and incorporates a number of the performing arts, such as acting, scenery, costumes and sometimes dance or ballet. The performance is typically given in an opera house, accompanied by an orchestra or smaller musical ensemble, which since the early 19th century has been led by a conductor.
Opera
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
W. H. Auden, in TIME magazine (29 December 1961)
Opera
An exotic and irrational entertainment, which has been always combated, and always has prevailed.
Samuel Johnson, Lives of the English Poets (1779-81), "Hughes." (Of Italian opera.)
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