KnowraItalian operaLinked fromLinked fromThe 44 pages that link to Italian opera, each with the reason it gives.All 44Broader topic 1Related 7Narrower topic 26Compared with 10Jean-Baptiste LullyCompared with: Lully adapted Italian operatic resources while forging a distinctly French alternative.Grand operaCompared with: Its vocal conventions often foreground solo singing more than grand opera’s mass spectacle.French Baroque musicCompared with: Its recitative and aria conventions differed from French declamation and dance-centered drama.John GayCompared with: The Beggar’s Opera parodies Italian opera’s conventions and its prestige among London audiences.Russian nationalism in musicCompared with: Its vocal conventions provided a prominent alternative to speech-oriented Russian opera.Vladimir StasovCompared with: Stasov opposed treating Italian models as the standard for Russian opera.Cecilian MovementCompared with: Cecilian reformers rejected operatic display as a model for Catholic liturgical music.Henry PurcellCompared with: Purcell’s stage works developed amid Italian operatic influence without simply adopting its conventions.Heinrich SchützCompared with: Schütz absorbed operatic rhetoric and expressive devices without making opera the center of his output.Music of FranceCompared with: Its conventions differed from the courtly spectacle and declamation favored in French opera.