Western vs Chinese opera

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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.

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In Chinese Opera, the music has an Eastern feeling and they use the Eastern instruments such as the Liu Qin, Yan Qing and Guzheng etc.

 

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The western opera singing voices are high in men and women. They sing in tenor or Countertenor.

In Chinese opera, they sing in the Eastern female farmer voices.

There are lots of different designs in costume and make up in Western opera. They can be dressed in an old fashioned way, fantasy, ancient fashion, medieval fashion, fancy dress, fiction characters or like the costume characters etc. For example in The Magic Flute, Tamino (The Prince) can dress in the prince costume back to medieval or 17^th, 18^th or 19^th century etc. The Queen of the night would dress in a magic fairy queen costume.

 

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