资料来源：《英语畅谈世界文化》
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每天一分钟，我们一起玩转世界文化。歌剧是一种将音乐、戏剧、文学、舞蹈、舞台美术等融为一体的综合性艺术。
童鞋们注意引号不写，是英式拼写哦~~
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Monteverdi 蒙特威尔第
Florence 佛罗伦萨
Greek
Daphne 达芙妮
Jacopo Peri 雅克布 佩里
arias 咏叹调
Italy
Italian
Mozart 莫扎特
Austrian 奥地利
You've been listening to that music for ages, what is it? It's an opera, composed by Monteverdi. Oh, it's by Monteverdi. It's too old for me! Who invented it anyway? Opera was invented by a group of wealthy people in Florence, who wanted to reproduce ancient Greek dramas. Wasn't the first real opera Daphne, by Jacopo Peri, written over 400 years ago? Yes, it was. I'm surprised you know that. Peri's opera is lost, because there were no music publishers then, but we know it existed because so many people wrote comments about the performance of Daphne. So, Monteverdi started after this, changing the form into the modern style we know today. He added arias allowing the singers to express the emotions of their characters, and to show off their singing abilities. Right, and later on other composers added many other things. For example, chorus parts, dances and instrumental parts. After this, opera grew and changed in many ways. It comes from Italy, right? I mean, all of these composers were Italian, but Mozart was Austrian.