While watching the video on opera I learned that Opera didn't emerge gradually into the public like other genres did, it surfaced "explosively" onto the entertainment scene. The part in the video where the custodian was singing just showed how powerful the sound system really is in that theatre, he didn't even have a microphone or any type of sound enhancing system, but his voice illuminated throughout the theatre. Opera really did bring hundreds of thousands of people together, 10,000 per night be exact. There was so much effort put into their daily performances at the Arena. I also learned that Opera is a huge deal in Italy and came to be an estimated 300 years ago. I found it really cool that he (Howard Goodall) was able to go to some of the famous people's (Camerata) houses who first talked about Opera in the city of Florence. These were the people that discussed Opera a whole lot and put on their first show which was called “Dapne’. I found the video quite interesting.
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