^ 'The king of popera' Archived at the Wayback Machine, The Sydney Morning Herald, August 28, 2004.During each act, the story unfolds through the music that the singers sing. The book that the composer and librettist put together is a called a score. Piano solo arrangements of nine songs from the beloved Lloyd Webber musical, including: All I Ask of You Angel of Music Masquerade The Music of the Night The Phantom of the Opera The Point of No Return Prima Donna Think of Me Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again. It is a story told by the composers through music while using the words of the librettist. Caruso: Lucio Dalla e Sorrento, il rock e i tenori (in Italian). Opera became increasingly popular during the Romantic period. ^ a b c Autunnali, Melisanda Massei (2011).Tin Pan Opera: Operatic Novelty Songs in the Ragtime Era (1st ed.).

^ a b c d Hamberlin, Larry (January 21, 2011).Groups like Il Divo and Amici Forever have achieved popularity with the mix of 'contemporary pop with operatic style' characteristic of operatic pop. In the 2000s, singers and singing groups devoted primarily to operatic pop built on this renewed success. Bocelli, in particular, soon became a leading representative of the subgenre while his famous duet partner, British soprano Sarah Brightman, also gravitated considerably towards this combination of opera and pop music. Other singers, including Andrea Bocelli, Josh Groban, and Katherine Jenkins, also recorded the number. In 1986, operatic tenor Luciano Pavarotti had a hit with the Lucio Dalla song ' Caruso', which helped to spark a recent flourishing of operatic pop. The subgenre subsequently dwindled after the 1920s but revived during the rock music era with albums such as The Who's Tommy and Queen's A Night at The Opera. Popularized by American Vaudeville, musical comedies, jazz and operettas, examples include Irving Berlin's That Opera Rag, Billy Murray's My Cousin Caruso and Louis Armstrong's riffs on Rigoletto and Pagliacci. The songs often used operatic repertory 'to make a satirical or topical point'. One influence was the large influx of Italian immigrants to the United States who popularized singers such as Enrico Caruso and inspired the creation of 'novelty songs' using Italian dialect. According to music historians, operatic pop songs became most prevalent with the rise of Tin Pan Alley musicians during the early 1900s.

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