Friday night an MWR bus picked us up from our housing in Mineo to take us to Catania where we had a few hours for dinner and then to watch a performance outside the opera house. It was wonderful. We enjoyed a drink, then dinner and then watched the performance. The city of Catania the second largest city in Sicily and we can't wait to go to a real opera there.
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I would have enjoyed this musical drama similar to opera, usually with a romantically sentimental plot, employing songs, dances, and orchestral interludes interspersed with spoken dialogue.
The modern tradition begins with Jacques Offenbach, who wrote some 90 operettas and inspired a Viennese tradition that began with the works of Franz von Suppé and Johann Strauss. In Britain most of the 14 comic operettas (1871–96) of W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan have been enduringly popular. In the U.S. the works of such European immigrant composers as Victor Herbert and Rudolf Friml were widely popular in the early 20th century.
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