Le comte Ory and The Magic Flute, are which type of theatre?
Le comte Ory Le comte Ory is an opéra written by Gioachino Rossini in 1828. Some of the music originates from his opera "Il viaggio a Reims" written three years earlier for the coronation of Charles X. The French libretto was by Eugène Scribe and Charles-Gaspard Delestre-Poirson adapted from a comedy they had first written in 1817.
Sotie A sotie (or sottie) is a short satirical play common in 15th- and 16th-century in France. The word (compare modern "sottise") comes from the "sots", "fools", who appeared as characters in the play. In the plays, these fools would make observations and exchange thoughts on contemporary events and individuals. Shorter plays, sometimes referred to as "parades", need not have any plot at all, but relied simply on a detached dialogue. The genre has its origin in the Feast of Fools and other Carnival-related festivities. The purpose of these events was to present a world turned upside-down, in this case with the fools as fonts of wisdom. The fools were dressed in grey robes, and wore a hood with donkey ears.