Italian opera of the early 1700s developed into 2 basic types: opera seria, or serious opera, & this, comic opera
[DOC] [TLE] Serious and Comic Opera in Eighteenth-Century Italy - Nancy Thuleen [PAR] The opera seria, which first arose in the cities of Naples and Venice, had taken 
on a ... opera seria's development and formulation came, not surprisingly, from 
two opera ... Zeno's libretti were in essence quite similar to the Metastasian type; 
he too .... seria, and once again, the comic and serious paths converged, back 
into a... [DOC] [TLE] Opera seria - Wikipedia [PAR] Opera seria is an Italian musical term which refers to the noble and "serious" style 
of Italian ...