The Standard Operaglass: Detailed Plots of the Celebrated Operas; With Critical and Biographical Remarks, Dates, Etc, Etc (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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An opera, then, is a play designed for the stage, with scenery, costumes, and action used as accessories as in all stage plays, but with the additional use Of music to intensify the meanings of the lines uttered by the characters, to heighten the effect produced by the other combined arts, and to add an emotional element that might otherwise be lacking.

It is a curious and interesting fact that the birth of Opera should be due more or less to accident, and should owe its origin to a group of amateurs; but SO it is, and to the blind gropings in the dark after a something (they knew not what) Of a small circle Of polished scholars we owe the form of Opera as we have it to-day.

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