A brief description of the historical roots of the production of opera
(1) The origin of opera can be traced back to the tragedy of the ancient Greek period, and this art form is the root of the emergence of opera art.
(2) Some musical forms of the medieval period also laid the foundation for the production of opera. First religious dramas at the end of the 10th century, later religious dramas were replaced by Mystery and Miracles, which flourished in the 14th and 16th centuries; This was followed by pastoral drama, a genre that used music, poetry, and drama to represent scenes of rural life, which flourished until the 16th century and became one of the important origins of opera.
(3) Renaissance pastoral opera also heralded the birth of opera. Composers use the genre form of pastoral to compose dramatic scenes in poetry, or to describe simple storylines with a set of pastoral songs, the latter form of which is called pastoral opera.
(4) The most immediate origin of opera is the Intermedio at the end of the 15th century. This is interspersed with fables, mythological plays, or pastoral plays interspersed between the acts of the comedy of the time, and by the 16th century, the intermissions between the acts formed a related story in the plot, and added decorative melodies and simple harmonic accompaniment.
(5) Opera was finally produced at the end of the 16th century with Florence in Italy. At that time, a group of cultural and artistic celebrities often met at the homes of the nobles Bardi and Corsi, who were keen to revive ancient Greek drama and strive to create a vivid art that combined poetry and music. They argue that polyphonic art undermines the expression of the meaning of lyrics, advocates the use of monophonic melodies, and in practice finds that the tone of free chanting with harmonic accompaniment can be used not only in the same poem, but also in the whole play. This was followed by the earliest operas, then known as the Garden Drama.
