TALKING ABOUT OPERA-TASK

TASK : writting

Imagine - last week, you were to watch an opera performance with your teacher. 
What opera did you see? Choose one Opera from the list: 
Manon, Carmen,  La traviata, The magic flute, La boheme, The marriage of Figaro, Rigoletto, Don Giovanni,  El barbero de Sevilla, Tosca, El buque fantasma ( el Holandés errante)Turandot, Madama Butterfly, Aida, Norma, Orfeo, Dido y Aeneas, Sansón y Dalila, Lucia de Lammermmor, 

 Search for information about your opera and make up an amazing story! 150 words

Useful vocabulary:
- Costume - a set of clothes in a style typical of a particular country or historical period

- Stage - a platform on which actors, entertainers, or speakers perform.

- Recitative  Speech like singing. The singer semi chants the words, like free rhythm of speech.

- Aria  A big song where the singer reveals her feelings and shows of her voice.

- Chorus /choir  A fairly large company of singers who perform together, usually in parts

- Duet - A composition to be performed by two musicians

- Ensemble - A group of musicians that perform as a unit


- Perform - it is the realization of a composition or in other words to "play" music with one or more musicians.

Here you have the example of Maria , an student:

María 
Two weeks ago my music teacher said to as : we are going to see an opera . I thought that it was going to be very boring.Before going to the opera I decided to read the libretto to have more information about the opera that we were going to see. The opera was Agrippina by George Fridedrich Händel. The libretto was written by Vincenzo Grimani. The opera was premiered at the Teatro San Giovanni Grisostomo Venice the 26 of december. Agrippina is an opera seria in three acts the opera tells the story of Agrippina, the mother of Nero. 

The day of the excursion ,the teacher said to us that this opera was one of the best operas of Handel.When we arrived to the theatre was not open so we had to wait.Then my music teacher told us something more about the opera.When finally we entered to the theater the stage was amazing. 

The opera began . In the first act Agrippina though that her husband had died and she tried to secure the throne for Nero her son by a previous marriage. But really her husband hadn't died because Otho saved him .And  the rest didn't know it because the characters were singing in a strange language.

The second act was very boring because I didn't understand it but the costumes were very nice .

The third act started. In this act Claudius announces that Nero and Poppaea will marry, and that Otho shall have the throne. No one was satisfied with this arrangement,  so Claudius in a spirit of reconciliation reverses his judgement, giving Poppaea to Otho and the throne to Nero. 


The opera finished . It wasn't as bad as we thought .Finally we had a good time seeing the opera of Händel.