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Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a drama work (called an opera) which combines a text (called a libretto) and a musical score. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery and costume and sometimes includes dance. The performance is typically given in an opera house, accompanied by an orchestra or smaller musical ensemble. Opera started in Italy at the end of the 16th... full article at wikipedia

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Don Giovanni	1979
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musical album	artist	release date	release type
Go Simpsonic with The Simpsons	The Simpsons	Oct 19, 1999	Soundtrack
Italian Intermezzo	Bucky Pizzarelli Ken Peplowski	2000
Mario! Lanza at His Best	Mario Lanza	1995
Mario Lanza Live at Hollywood Bowl: Historical Recordings	Mario Lanza	2000
Mario Lanza: Christmas Hymns and Carols/You Do Something to Me	Mario Lanza	2004
Highlights from Porgy and Bess		1935
Selections from George Gershwin's folk opera Porgy and Bess
Porgy and Bess		1951
Porgy and Bess		1950
Porgy and Bess	Ella Fitzgerald Louis Armstrong Russell Garcia	1957	Studio album
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The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.	Jean de La Bruyère
If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that we not only have feelings but insist upon having them at whatever cost to ourselves. The quality common to all the great operatic roles, e.g., Don Giovanni, Norma, Lucia, Tristan, Isolde, Br?nnhilde, is that each of them is a passionate and willful state of being. In real life they would all be bores, even Don Giovanni.	W. H. Auden
Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.	Hannah More
I love Italian opera -- it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn Debussy, and his averted face. I like the Italians who run all on impulse, and don't care about their immortal souls, and don't worry about the ultimate.	D. H. Lawrence
A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.	Robertson Davies
Opera in English, is about as sensible as baseball in Italian.	H. L. Mencken
The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. -- On Lohengrin	Mark Twain
I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager.	Edgar Allan Poe
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.	W. H. Auden
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