POST #7– READING, GRQ and Discussion– THEATER OF THE PEOPLE

 Begin this post with differences between operas and musicals Many people feel that the greatest opera ever created is Phantom of the Opera However, others feel that it is not an opera. 2 Find pros and cons and state your opinion and why. Is Phantom an opera or a musical? Is it the greatest opera ever created? Why?

Many people credit the musical as an "Opera", but in reality it is not the case, However, it can be in a way. This is because 1: The performance DOES have some sections where it can be classified as an opera, and 2: it has a scenery that can change backgrounds like opera, but the problem is that there is dialogue while opera has little to none and opera values beautiful singing voices while musicals often use “character voices.” After listing the pros and cons, I can see why some people think that Phantom of the Opera can be considered as an opera with some opera parts, but in my personal opinion, it is NOT an opera because for something to qualify as an opera, it needs to have little to no dialogue, and the "music", has to be relied almost entirely on vocals, and not produced by an orchestra.

GRC

1: Ancient Greeks

2: Homer

3: Iliad, Trojan War

4: Virtue

5: Homeric epic

6: Iliad, Odyssey

7: Gods

8: Inductive reasoning

9: Socrates

10: Plato

11: Treatise

12: Glaucon

13: Dionysos

14: Satyr play

15: Greek comedies

16: Tragedies

17: Death, dead

18: Thespis, thespian

19: Protagonist, antagonist
20: Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides

21: Dionysos

22: Plato

23: Catharsis

24: Golden mean

25: verisimilitude
26: three unities

27: universality

28: Intermezzi

29: Opera

30: nobility
31: Intermezzi
32: modernism
33: modernism
34: Wagner