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On Aug 10, 10:42*am, hk wrote:
Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Sat, 9 Aug 2008 23:38:54 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:


"hk" wrote in message
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It's not that opera stories were "bad," generally, though some certainly
were. It's just that the story really isn't that significant a part of the
work in most of them. In most opera, the libretto is just a theme, a
beginning. It's the music, the singing, the show that is important. Even
in Mozart's time, the libretto for Don Giovanni was...bizarre. But the
work is one of the greatest ever written.


Consider the libretto for one of the greatest American musicals, Oklahoma!
Corny as Kansas, set in Oklahoma. Silliness. But...the music, the singing,
the dancing, the visuals are incomparable.
"Oklahoma" isn't an opera.


You do realise you missed a great opportunity there don't you?


Opera tunes - show tunes?


*Modern* musical theater evolved from comic and ballad opera, and other
forms of performance entertainment, but the opera element is obvious.

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