MUSIC Q10.4

• art and music form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text (called a libretto) and a musical score, usually in an elaborate theatrical setting (opera house)

part of the Western classical music form and tradition.

Started during the 19th Century when instrumental virtuosis, opera singers, and Spanish zarzuela performers came.

First Filipino opera 

sandugong panaginip by:

sandugong panaginip later translated by the Englishman M.W. Loving with the title

sandugong panaginip composed by

father of philippine opera

lakangbini by (surname)

staged at the Metropolitan Theater on December 19, 1933.