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What's the difference between opera and musical?
the difference between musical and opera: musical is mainly a drama, while opera is mainly a musical art.

1. Musical narrative is traditional in law, and usually pays attention to the coherence of the plot, so as to avoid the obstacles to the audience's understanding of the plot; In narrative rhythm, it belongs to the modern jumping type. It pays attention to fast pace in specific scene handling, is good at creating tension, and forms the audience's expectation for drama suspense. The stage atmosphere is passionate and hot, and the color contrast of large areas is often used to create strong contrast.

2. The stage narrative rules of opera are basically jumping, which pays little attention to the coherence of the plot, and the scene arrangement is jumping, and the audience often needs to fill in the blanks of many plots themselves; The stage narrative rhythm basically belongs to the traditional type, step by step, steady, dignified stage atmosphere, and slow drama development.