I think it's quite difficult to draw a line between musical and opera: maybe the amount of time for which the chorus is on stage, but there are chorus parts in Evita and it's sung through.
I think there's a continuum that goes from something like Verdi's Falstaff, through something like this Donizetti, through HMS Pinafore to Oklahoma!
Rent is called a sung-through musical; La Boheme is an opera; Rent is pretty clearly a remake of La Boheme.
Thinking of it more, I wonder if there's a first-person versus third-person distinction; opera arias are often about the characters' inner feelings, whilst most of the big pieces in Evita are clearly addressed at the audience.
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Date: 2018-02-26 11:01 pm (UTC)I think there's a continuum that goes from something like Verdi's Falstaff, through something like this Donizetti, through HMS Pinafore to Oklahoma!
Rent is called a sung-through musical; La Boheme is an opera; Rent is pretty clearly a remake of La Boheme.
Thinking of it more, I wonder if there's a first-person versus third-person distinction; opera arias are often about the characters' inner feelings, whilst most of the big pieces in Evita are clearly addressed at the audience.