What is the Grand Opera?

Grand Opera dominated the 19th century Paris Theater and it is a term often used to refer to the production of the Paris Opera. These serious, often tragic history were richly made, complemented by a ballet, a live orchestra and a great cast of world -famous singers. The only designs, costumes and orchards have always been quite spectacular, so these productions were comparable to today's Hollywood films. Although this musical genre is mainly associated with French composers, it also includes the key works of Italian and German artists who were at that time attracted to the creative culture in Paris.

Historical events were often based on the topic of Grand Opera; Auber's La Muette de Portici (1828) was one of the first popular revolutionary epics and even eruled the living stage Mt. Vesuvius. Others were written to depict current events, such as Napoleon's conquest of the battle in the revolution and his government as a government. Meyerbeer Opera Robert Le DiableLem, which premiered at the Paris Opera immediately after the French Revolution as soon as the new government was privatized. This political, liberal melodrama was soon followed in 1836 Les Huguenots, the most successful of all the great major operas of the 19th century. In the 1840s and 1950s, the Paris Opera introduced many large operas, which are now considered classics; Dom Sébastien Dom (1843), Giuseppe Verdi's Jérusal and Les vêpres siciliennes (1855) and Charles Gounod's Fust (1859) All Golden Age of Grand Opera.

The Grand Opera tradition was to include ballet, usually at the beginning of the act II. While Ballet Interlude had no connection with the storyline of the game itself, the paraisthematic patrons of Aris Opera enjoyed the opportunity to dine and associate between the actions. Composers like Richard Wagner, who got lost from this formula, bY could be contemptified by the audience who was more interested in dinner than the drama that developed on stage. When Wagner tried to introduce his Tannhäuser as a big opera in 1861, the Paris opera withdrew it after only three performances. Too many rich patrons complained that the ballet that appears in the act I interrupted their pleasant food.

Faust was revised and revised and revised by the Paris Opera, with staging and settings even greater than before. Other wildly popular productions of the day were La Reine de Saba Charles Gounod, Giuseppe Verdi's Don Carlos (1867) and Hamlet Ambrois Thomas (1968). In the 1970s of the 20th century, however, the Grand Opera began to decrease because new music fashion and composers like Wagner were on the rise. The Mamoth Stage spectaclroduction of the classic large opera was very expensive and no longer draw the types of large viewers that would justify production costs.