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Serious and Comic Opera in Eighteenth-Century Italy
The opera seria, which first arose in the cities of Naples and Venice, had taken on a clear, practically inflexible form by around 1720. In its very essence, as both the libretti and the musical composition demonstrate, the opera seria was a product of the philosophical movement that arose in the late 1600's, the famous Enlightenment, that seized all of Europe and affected so many different aspects of life. The philosophers of the Enlightenment, when they turned their ideas to opera, maintained that this musical-dramatic form should reflect the new ideals of clarity and unity, which were based primarily off of ancient Greek philosophical treatises. Thus, write Grout and Palisca, Italian opera seria "aimed to be clear, simple, rational, faithful to nature, of universal appeal, and capable of giving pleasure to its audiences without causing them undue mental fatigue.
In general, the Italian and European publics moved away from the strict opera seria, and once again, the comic and serious paths converged, back into a form from whence they had both come; now, however, both had changed to fit the new standards of the public, who wanted not only comedy, and not only tragedy, but a mixture of both forms. Thus, as is to be expected, "by the 1780's very few opera houses still patronized opera seria exclusively."
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