Hello! My name is Adrian. This is my opera blog. Difference Between Western Opera And Chinese Opera Jacopo Peri (1561–1633) was the first opera composer in the world. He was from Italy. Opera is a classical musical and drama where the actors and actresses sing in high voices. The whole story is acted out in music and song. Operas were mostly written during the 17 th , 18 th , 19 th and early 20 th century. They were written mostly in Italy, Austria, France, England and Russia. There is also opera in China but Chinese opera is very different than the western one. European opera style is the same as the western one one but they are sung in different languages. They are sung in German, Italian, French, English and Russian. The differences between Western Opera and Chinese opera are the style, costume, makeup, music, tune, sound and dance. The western opera music has a Classical feeling and they use instruments in the orchestra like Violin, Cello, trumpet and Horn etc.