| Music Man |
08-01-2007 02:43 PM |
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Originally Posted by jgd85
(Post 384787)
did you read my last thread? i just said that. since i apparently am having trouble deciphering the two, instead of pointing out my mistake maybe you could enlighten me.
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Chill out, dude. :p: I wasn't trying to put you down or anything. I just don't want people who don't know much about the genre, to read your post and think that Les Miserables is a classical opera.
If you catch an obvious mistake in any of my posts, feel free to mention it. I'll be more knowledgeable and better off having the correct info. ;)
The main differences between an opera and a musical:
1. In an opera, virtually everything is sung. There's very little if any spoken dialogue. Whereas in a musical, there's a lot of spoken dialogue with songs interspersed.
2. In a musical, the songs are usually sung in a normal singing voice, with microphones used for amplification. In an opera, microphones are rarely used, and the singing voices are often dramatically exaggerated, frequently loud and booming or shrill. |
