Posted by hayden on Monday, June 9, 2008 at 2:40pm.
Musicals came to us from opera which came to us from earlier forms of musical plays.
History of opera:
History of OPERA including Roman revivals and intermezzi...., Dafne, Monteverdi, Dido and Aeneas, Handel, Gluck and the reform of opera, Mozart and opera, ...
http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ab36
Opera - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Earlier models of opera generally stuck to more distant history, .... Oxford Illustrated History of Opera, Chapter 1; articles on Peri and Monteverdi in The ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera
Brief History of Opera. Lesson Connection: Aida and Its Relevance to the World Today. Copyright The Kennedy Center. All rights reserved. ...
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/2374/2374_aida_operahistory.pdf
Metropolitan Opera History
Profiles of famous Met singers, such as Mathilde Bauermeister, Celestina Boninsegna, Ferruccio Tagliavini, and Lawrence Tibbett.
http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/
History of Classical Music - Eras
Musical history during the Medieval Times, Renaissance, Classical Period, Baroque, ... (e.g. Handel's Water Music), or as a spectacle in the form of opera. ...
http://www.naxos.com/education/brief_history.asp
Musicals:
http://www.google.com/search?q=history+of+musicals&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
Here is a site that shows the development from opera to operetta to musical.
http://www.essortment.com/all/musicalsartists_rdku.htm
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