Are both Eine florentinische Tragödie and Alceste operas?
Eine florentinische Tragödie Eine florentinische Tragödie , Op. 16, is an opera in one act by Alexander von Zemlinsky to a libretto adapted by the composer from a German translation by of Oscar Wilde's unfinished play "A Florentine Tragedy".
Origins of opera The art form known as "opera" originated in Italy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, though it drew upon older traditions of medieval and Renaissance courtly entertainment. The word "opera", meaning "work" in Italian, was first used in the modern musical and theatrical sense in 1639 and soon spread to the other European languages. The earliest operas were modest productions compared to other Renaissance forms of sung drama, but they soon became more lavish and took on the spectacular stagings of the earlier genre known as intermedio.