Source: CCTV.com
05-04-2009 18:02
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Naples is known around the world as the centre of Italian opera. Towards the end of the 16th century, a new kind of performing art was created in the city of Florence in northern Italy. It was an early form of opera.
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Within 100 years, it was dominating the stages of Rome and Venice, becoming the most popular form of entertainment for aristocrats and common people alike. In the late 17th century, a new school of opera developed in Naples, which would bring about fundamental changes to Italian opera.
