Importance of the Opera

The construction of human culture: opera as a central element of the history musical.- When we talk about opera, we refer to one of the most beautiful, important and significant cultural expressions of the human being. Characteristic of the West, opera, however, is today a cultural phenomenon that can be enjoyed in all parts of the world with the reproduction of musical works by different and varied historical authors who have bequeathed to the human community perfect and complex creations.

Opera appears on the Western music scene, more specifically in Europe, in the 17th century. Unlike other types of musical creations such as classical music exclusively, opera involves the joint work of musicians who play instruments at the same time that lyrical singers do their thing with lyrics specially designed to harmonize with the music.

Brief history of the rise of opera

The place of origin of the opera is considered to be the European continent, like many other classical artistic creations. We could define it even more if we risk limiting it to Italy. Although there are links with Greek tragedy and other forms of oral musical expression, the reality is that only recently In the middle of the 17th century, in the middle of the Baroque era, we can begin to talk about opera as we know it today. Numerous artists, musicians and singers arose in this region, giving it the necessary vigor to transform it into a unique cultural phenomenon.

Opera represents the union of many arts in a unique combination.

All the artistic creations of the human being are central to add quality of life to their existence. One of the peculiarities of the opera is that in it we can see several of them combined.

While the painting, the music or the literature can easily stand alone and be enjoyed in isolation, opera is a complex creation as it represents the union of arts such as poetry or literature, stage arts that require disciplines such as painting or even sculpture and, finally, the music that must be worked on, as we said played in complex orchestras plus the lyrical singing of the artists on the scenery.

There are also endless genres within opera that make it even more complex and that define characteristics very defined and distinguished from each other. Among some of the examples we can mention the ballet opera, the Grand Opera, the farce, the humorous drama, the operetta, etc.

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