Opera is a comprehensive art that focuses on singing and integrates poetry, drama, vocal music, instrumental music and dance. The structure of an opera usually includes overture, interlude, chorus, duet and solo. The solo of the protagonist in the opera is divided into aria and recitative, as well as aria, recitative, kavadina, romance and serenade.
Opera and musical, both of which belong to the category of musical drama, are both stage drama styles with high comprehensive degree. From the perspective of cultural nature, opera belongs to traditional elegant art and classical art, while musical belongs to modern popular art, entertainment art and commercial art.
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The difference between opera and musical
First, opera takes music as the head, while musical takes script as the first. Opera develops drama with music, and music naturally obeys the needs of drama conflict, the needs of opera image and the needs of plot development. Musical, as a commercial and entertaining popular stage drama art, its starting point and destination are view and market.
Secondly, there are great differences between them in the musical expression system. The dramatic intensity and depth of opera music are often greater than that of musicals.
Third, they have different proportions in dance scenes. In opera, dance is often used as an interspersed and colorful element, which seems to be dispensable. However, in musicals, especially musicals of the musical type, dance is an important means of expression, which is "three-legged" with drama and music.
fourthly, they are in the opposite situation in terms of stage narrative rules and narrative rhythm. The stage narrative rules of opera basically belong to the jumping type, paying little attention to the coherence of the plot, and the scene arrangement is relatively jumping, which often requires the audience to fill in the blanks of many plots themselves;
However, the narrative rhythm of the stage is basically traditional, step by step, steady, dignified, and the drama unfolds slowly. Musicals, on the other hand, are traditional in narrative law, and usually pay attention to the coherence of the plot and try to avoid the obstacles for the audience to understand the plot; In narrative rhythm, it belongs to the modern jumping type. It pays attention to fast pace in specific scene handling, is good at creating tension, and forms the audience's expectation for drama suspense. The stage atmosphere is passionate and hot, and the color contrast of large areas is often used to create strong contrast. .