Post #7 - Reading, GRQ and Discussion - Theater of the People

 Guided Reading Questions:

1. Ancient Greeks
2. Homer
3. Iliad
4. Areté
5. Homeric Epic
6. Iliad, Odyssey
7. Gods
8. Inductive Reasoning
9. Socrates
10. Plato
11. Treatise
12. Glaucon
13. Dionysos
14. Satyr Play
15. Greek Comedies
16. Tragedies
17. Death, Dead
18. Thespis, Thespian
19. Protagonist, Antagonist
20. Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides
21. Dionysos
22. Plato       --Further Analysis Below--
23. Catharsis
24. The Golden Mean
25. Verisimilitude
26. Three Unities
27. Universality
28. Intermezzi
29. Opera
30. Nobility
31. Intermezzi
32. "Modern theatre" is often said to begin with Saxe-Meiningen, Ibsen, and Zola, "Modernism" 
33. Modernism
34. Wagner

**22 Breakdown**

Based on the reading below Plato is the answer you seem to be looking for, but reading further, I see that Alexander the Great was actually Aristotles student and Aristotle was Plato's student. 👇

"Aristotle was a student of Plato's. Recall that, for Plato, all reality is a mere reflection of a higher, spiritual truth, a higher dimension of Ideal Forms that we glimpse only through philosophical contemplation (see Fig. 5.13). Aristotle disagreed. Reality was not a reflection of an ideal form, but existed in the material world itself, and by observing the material world, one could come to know universal truths. "

Discussion:

Operas and Musicals have several differences. Musicals have a lot of both music and dialogue and encourage the use of a microphone whereas Operas are mostly singing and require projection and there are never any microphones used since it is such a craft to learn how to do. In operas they also have to hold their notes super high, there always seems to be a vibrato where in musical theatre there is a lot more straight tone. Many people do believe that Phantom of the Opera is an opera though it is more of a musical about an opera. Personally, I think that Phantom of the Opera is close to an opera, but I know it to be more of a musical as I have learned in the past. It contains vibrato as in opera, but there is some dialogue and done in a very similar way to a musical. I see it as a musical so I am not sure I would classify it as the "greatest opera ever", but I know that to be the closest thing to an opera that I know.