History of Singing (Part 2)

       Continuing with the web documents from A Brief History of Singing, it goes on to the next section of how Opera Develops. Opera became an "elaborate and expensive entertainment format that allowed the leisure class..to exhibit their wealth in displays of extravagance and excess to do so under the guise of art and culture." It formed the theatrical style stile rappresentativo, which is still seen in acting for musicals today.