Opera through the ages

Opera is as vital today as it was in 16th-century Florence. We chart the rise and reinvention of the genre over four centuries16th-century 0riginsThough various ways of bringing music and drama together had been explored over centuries – such as liturgical dramas, the English court masque and its Italian equivalent, the intermedio – the first real opera can be accurately dated. A group of Florentine intellectuals called the Camerata decided to recreate the original form of Greek drama – wh...

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