Who wrote the first opera?
What’s the difference between an opera, operetta and operettetetta? When will someone finally write an opera about video game characters? All of these questions and more will be answered over the course of this article. However, one quick disclaimer: it has been a year since I took music history. The brain, scientifically speaking, can only hold information it learns in classes for a maximum of two days. (It has been four years since my last biology class.) Therefore, those of you “in the know” may detect several slight exaggerations, oversimplifications and outright lies. Such misinformation, just like the presence of sarcasm, has NO place on a college newspaper funnies page, and I urge you to write to the editor if you are furious. Direct all your opera information to tylerjy@goshen.edu. In the beginning, people thought that singing and acting were like aardvarks and water skiing. There was no logical reason to put them together. Then one day, Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi had
