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Features of Opera Seria
•no comic characters
•no supernatural elements
•no chorus (except at the very end of the opera)
•historically based plots
•a recurring narrative theme—the conflict between love and duty
•few characters (usually, 6-8)
•one-dimensional characters that represent a particular affect (e.g. love or jealousy); the principal players are morally consummate heroes.
•Opera seria has a didactic function; its purpose was to entertain and instruct—that is, to generate courtly propaganda
•no supernatural elements
•no chorus (except at the very end of the opera)
•historically based plots
•a recurring narrative theme—the conflict between love and duty
•few characters (usually, 6-8)
•one-dimensional characters that represent a particular affect (e.g. love or jealousy); the principal players are morally consummate heroes.
•Opera seria has a didactic function; its purpose was to entertain and instruct—that is, to generate courtly propaganda
