Does anyone know where opera originated? For grade 5 .?

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Does anyone know where opera originated? For grade 5 .?windows installer

Opera originated in late 16th-century Florence when the musical declamation, lyrical monologues, and choruses of classical Greek drama, were reproduced in the style of that time.

One of the earliest opera composers was Jacopo Peri, whose Euridice influenced Claudio Monteverdi, the first great master of the operatic form. Initially solely a court entertainment, opera soon became popular, and in 1637 the first public opera house was opened in Venice. It spread to other Italian towns, to Paris (about 1645), and to Vienna and Germany, where it remained Italian at the courts but became partly German at Hamburg from about 1680.

Does anyone know where opera originated? For grade 5 .?microsoft vista internet explorer

In Europe. In Italy.

http://www.operagifts.com/history_of_ope...

http://www.theatrehistory.com/italian/op...

http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-278...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origins_of_...

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