Watching the video on the origin of opera by Howard Goodall helped me to understand how the world obtained opera and how popular it is. Before watching this video, I had very little knowledge on when and where opera was originally created. I was surprised to find out that opera was created over 400 years ago in Italy. Since then, it has only grown more popular and spread throughout the world becoming a global art. In this video, Goodall made a point that I never thought about before. Goodall said “opera is a form of music that interfaces with the real world through love, death, and politics.” After thinking about this, I realized it is very true. Whenever I used to think about opera, I would always categorize it with plays and theater rather than music. But now after watching the video, operas are equally musically with acting, which is extremely hard to master simultaneously. Overall, I really liked this video and thought it was very informative to those who do not have any knowledge of opera to learn how it began.
Above is an image of Jacopo Peri, the writer of the first known opera, “Dafne.”
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