Operetta and Beyond
Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II composed this famous musical.
What is Show Boat?
An oratorio is performed more like this type of musical performances, without staging or costumes.
What is a concert?
This style of Opera features heroic characters often based on legends.
What the Ancient Greeks called the "dancing space" where the actors performed.
What is the orchestra?
This Old Testament book is made up of songs written to glorify God.
What is Psalms?
This duo composed the first operetta in English.
Who is Gilbert and Sullivan?
Unlike opera, we use this word to describe the religious themes of oratorio.
What is sacred?
Unlike oratorio, we use this word to describe the non-religious themes of Opera.
What is secular?
This gets its name from the Greek word for "viewing place".
What is the theatron?
This young person played the lyre to comfort King Saul.
Who is David?
Operetta began in this city as a lighter, more accessible form of musical performance.
What is Paris, France?
This word describes a song that is performed by a large group of people singing multiple different parts at once.
What is a chorus?
This style of Opera features characters that were everyday, ordinary people.
These side passageways were used for entrances and exits by both the actors and the audience members.
What are the parados?
This person criticized David for dancing in front of the Lord.
Who is his wife (Michal)?
This type of performance was more scaled down than an operetta and was performed in New York's princess theatre.
What is a princess musical?
This composer created one of the most famous Christmas oratorios, the Messiah, which included the famous "Hallelujah Chorus"
Who is Handel?
This word describes a long, accompanied song for a solo voice.
What is an aria?
This building sat directly behind the stage and served as a backdrop.
What is the skene?
After crossing the Red Sea, this person led the Israelites in singing, dancing, and playing instruments.
Who is Miriam?
Composed by Jacques Offenbach, this show is considered the first official operetta.
What is Orpheus in the Underworld?
This was one of the many Bible characters whose story was turned into an oratorio (name one).
Who is Jephthah, Deborah, Samson, Solomon, or Athalia?
This word describes speech-like singing that is sung with many words on the same note.
What is recitative?
The name of the early philosopher who criticized the immoral topics of Greek theatre.
Who is Lactantius?
In Luke 11, Jesus uses this object as a metaphor to describe the condition of your body based on what you look at.
What is a lamp?