Reasons For Watching American Friends Linden Opera Plays

By Carolyn Lee


Art is a vital part of life and living. While it may not be necessary for survival, it has to be present to put value in our lives. One very prominent artform is the performance and theatre art. These plays nourish the soul and have great moving stories about the wonder, tragedy and humour that surround life throughout different generations.

Opera is a branch of theater arts that focuses on music and singing. All the parts are sang and have a specific style. Many confuse musicals and operas with each other. Learning how to sing the way they do require a whole lifetime of training and in born talent. The American Friends Linden opera house have many performances that cater to the Renaissance form of theater.

The purpose that ADPOB or the American Friends of the Paris Opera and Ballet serves is to share the cultural and artistic treasure of Paris to the American community and create a cooperation between both groups. There are many new plays that have been created with wonderful stories and performances.

Operas on the other hand, usually delve in serious tragedy surrounding and have a lot of political themes and 18th to 19th century culture. A famous publication also stated that if a character start singing after they get stabbed, you are probably watching an opera. Many composers for this include the fathers of music like Strauss, Mozart, Tchaikovesky and Beethoven.

Ironically, one of the most famous plays that have ever been created, the Phantom of the Opera, is not an opera. It was made incredibly popular by its movie. The music can range from classical rennaisance with so much romantic music. Although this is more contemporary than the ones performed in Europe.

The musical composition for this is very different when compared to other theatrical arts. The stories are also geared toward more classical ideas involving the tragedy and comedy of human life. A persistent element is how the characters would always seek some sort of divine intervention to solve their problems through supernatural causes, like in mentioned previously, by selling souls to the devil.

Mozart composed for very many famous operas. One of them if based off of Don Juan. Don Giovanni both serious and comedic. The play is one of the 10 most performed plays in theaters. The marriage of Figaro precede the fame of Don Giovanni.

The main reason why these performances are still being shown is how they still remain valuable even in the age of TVs and digital media. The life that is portrayed in stage gives great insight to the tragic comedy that literature is best known for. Many stories written by Shakespeare have been used and turned into operas. This gives you an idea of what kind of plots are being used and composition of music is preferred by the art form.

In the twenty first century there have been many critics that say this form of artistic expression is going to be reduced into something irrelevant. This is due to the rise of digital media and television. Before there were even movies and tv shows are the forms of literature brought to life by live theatre acts.




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