Assignment Eight: Opera and Musical Theatre

All three performance venues (opera, light opera, and musical theatre) share one common feature, they all you singing and music to convey and theatrical performance. However, the styles of singing differ from each venue. In opera, singer's voices are very profound and demanding. Skilled opera singers know how to control their breathing and have been trained in the art form. Also, most opera singer do not use microphones, where as in musical theatre performances microphones are very imperative. In addition, musical theatre and light opera both require dialogue in their shows. Many operas have thin story lines, and the only dialogue found in an opera is a prelude before the show begins to give the audience a synopsis of the play. All in all, both light opera and musical theatre stemmed from classical opera making all three venues relate to each other.