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Explain the difference between an opera and a musical.You can't.
One is patrician and the other is opera
Doesn't an opera have music all the time but a musical has only songs some of the time?
>>68998506
Movie adaptation when?
Star wars isn't a space musical
>>68998506
Musicals have spoken word in them
Opera's ENTIRELY song
The Blues Brothers is a musical.
/thread
>>68998506
Didn't that guy on the right do porn?
>>68998506
A lot of people point to the main difference being that Operas are entirely sung, while musicals are plays that have songs interspersed. Really, they are just different eras of theatre. Operas were purely European, they are like symphonies with acting. Then came the comic opera, mostly a British thing, which is a good midway point in the evolution.
The musical, though is an American affair. It's America's greatest addition to the art of theatre, and its deeply rooted in the American mindset. They are populist, the songs were written in Tin Pan Alley, mass produced art. They were mass consumed, as well. Even the man who would never sniff Broadway would be able to hear Bing Crosby crooning the popular showtunes over his radio. In their heyday, they were enjoyed by everyone, like Shakespeare or Mozart. However, much like Shakespeare or Mozart, their time seems to have passed, and are currently viewed as something for women, stuffy educated and/or rich men, and homosexuals.
>>68998821
also /theatre/ general?
>>68998506
Musicals are fun and gay.
Opera is boring and for old white people with money.
>>68998506
Musicals tend to be poppier and feature significantly fewer instruments. Also Musicals are very rarely have continuous music, however most operas don't have non-musical parts, and is completely played through besides brief intermissions.
I like to compare something like Les Miserables (Musical) to The Marriage of Figaro (Opera). Yes, they are both sungthrough, yet Les Mis clearly has a different sound than the Marriage of Figaro. Les Mis has poppy tunes while The Marriage of Figaro is classical music with different emphasises on different notes.
Les Miserables may have tunes like Stars which is very operetic, but it also has music like Master of the House which is much more showtuney.
>>68998871
Is there even a board for theater?
>>68998821
The only people who don't like opera are people who never gave it a chance. (Like musicals)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2yrDWEoCpc
Also Shakespeare wrote plays, not operas.
>>68999026
/asp/
>>68999026
there used to be a dedicated /theatre/ on here that was actually really nice, or maybe it was /lit/, anyway shit was cash
>>68999055
jej
>>68999043
>Also Shakespeare wrote plays, not operas.
I know, I was just drawing parallels, bro.
and I completely agree about operas.
>>68998506
TURN IT OFF
>>68998727
No, he did Frozen, which is just as humiliating.
>>68998902
>le old white men meme
who's your musicalfu
>>68999581
Lea obviously.
>>68999869
>she's being looked at by a man
Cuck
>>68998506
Opera requires talent
>>69000029
She's the one that gets cucked though, so it's okay.
>>68999869
shit-tier desu
