Opera in the modern age

What of opera today? We look at the last few decades and find not only the stories, but the music and the very form itself have been reinventedAt the beginning of the 20th century, when modernism began to undermine the basic grammar of music, some of the principles that underpinned the workings of opera inevitably came under attack, too. Though some composers continued to write operas in which the symbiotic relationship between the music, the words and the drama they conveyed was much the same a...

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