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en-wikipedia-org-3040		Opera - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	13791	1140	65	Opera is a form of theatre in which music has a leading role and the parts are taken by singers, but is distinct from musical theatre.[1] Such a "work" (the literal translation of the Italian word "opera") is typically a collaboration between a composer and a librettist[2] and incorporates a number of the performing arts, such as acting, scenery, costume, and sometimes dance or ballet. Opera originated in Italy at the end of the 16th century (with Jacopo Peri's mostly lost Dafne, produced in Florence in 1598) especially from works by Claudio Monteverdi, notably L'Orfeo, and soon spread through the rest of Europe: Heinrich Schütz in Germany, Jean-Baptiste Lully in France, and Henry Purcell in England all helped to establish their national traditions in the 17th century. This situation continued throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, including in the work of Michael William Balfe, and the operas of the great Italian composers, as well as those of Mozart, Beethoven, and Meyerbeer, continued to dominate the musical stage in England.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3040.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3040.txt