Hi,Ilove operas because they are an art form that depict interesting takes onstories
Oh cool, what are the subjects they sing about?
the singers and musicans perform and sing about dramatic stories
How long have they existed?
continuous music drama.
Opera originated in Italy at the end of the 16th century (with Jacopo Peri's mostly lost "Dafne", produced in Florence in 1598) and soon spread through the rest of Europe: Heinrich Schütz in Germany, Jean-Baptiste Lully in France, and Henry Purcell in England all helped to establish their national traditions in the 17th century. In the 18th century, Italian opera continued to dominate most of Europe (except France), attracting foreign composers such as George Frideric Handel. Opera seria
while beggars are not; outside the world described by Homer, Hesiod gives a similar list in the form of a proverb on professional jealousy:
According to the "Iliad" and "Odyssey" singers gained their inspiration from the Muses. Hesiod describes how the Muses visited him while he tended his sheep on Mount Helicon and granted him this inspiration, permitting him to sing of the future as well as the past. An anecdote in the "Iliad" about Thamyris shows that the Muses could take away what they had given