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.
I think a technological advance in the 21 st century has to be the camera. We have always had cameras back in the day but as the decades and years go by many advances are made. We’ve gone from the pinhole Camera in the 1500s to t he Daguerreotype Camera in 1839 to the Reise Camera in 1900 to the Leica I in 1925to the Polaroid Model 95 in 1947 to the Kodak Digital Camera in 1975 to the Fuji Quick Snap-in 1986 to the Sharp J-SH04 in 2000 to the Apple iPhone in 2007 to the GoPro HD Hero 2008. We have evolved so much throughout the years and in the next few years, I see a major difference in the functions provided by a future camera. The pinhole was one of the first known cameras invented and people could only see the picture upside down, it took a lot of heads and years to create what we have today and I in this time and age wouldn’t be able to tell you what the future holds in the case of cameras. I know for a fact the quality ...
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