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What was unusual about the manner in which Richard Strauss crafted his libretto for Salome?
 
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Opera is:
 
  A) always very loud; there are no quiet moments
 
  B) never sung in English
 
  C) only for the wealthy class
 
  D) drama, either tragic or comic, in which all dialogue is sung
 
  E) only performed today at New York's Metropolitan Opera House



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Answer to Question 1

used the prose text and just dropped lines as necessary rather than rewriting the whole thing

Answer to Question 2

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bucstennis@aim.com

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Both answers were spot on, thank you once again




 

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