WHAT IS OPERA?
Opera /ˈɒprə/ (Italian: [ˈɔːpera]; English plural: operas; Italian plural: opere [ˈɔːpere]) is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text (libretto) and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. ...The performance is typically given in an opera house, accompanied by an orchestra or smaller musical ensemble.
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WHAT IS POLITICS?
The working definition
Politics (from Greek: πολιτικός politikos, definition "of, for, or relating to citizens") is the practice and theory of influencing other people...
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WHAT IS OPERA AS POLITICS ?
Denis Diderot (1713-1784)
How does it happen then that of the three arts that imitate Nature, the one [music] whose expression is the most arbitrary and the least precise speaks the most powerfully to the soul?…Could it be that …since we need agitation in order to be moved, music is more appropriate than painting and poetry for producing turbulence within us?