Italy is seeking to include opera on the UNESCO list of intangible heritage, following it invaded theaters all over the world, where the Frenchman Stephane Lesnar, who has run the San Carlo Theater in Naples, the oldest opera house in the world and was founded in 1737, has since 2020 said that “the opera saw the light in Italy.” “.
Sharjah 24 – AFP:
Italian operas conquered theaters all over the world, but this art originated and developed in Italy, which is currently seeking to inscribe it on the UNESCO Intangible Heritage List.
Frenchman Stephane Lesnar, who has been running the San Carlo Theater in Naples since 2020, the oldest opera house in the world, founded in 1737, recalls that “the opera saw the light in Italy.”
After several experiments in musical theater in the sixteenth century, the opera finally saw the light around 1600 in Florence, where an academy was founded promoting a creative style combining sung texts and music.
The first notable operatic composer was an Italian, Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643), and this was only the beginning.
