Opera
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...violent passions. The influence of French grand opera was enormous, reaching even to the early works of Wagner and Verdi. Hector Berlioz s masterpiece Les Troyens ( The Trojans, 1856 58), while owing nothing to Meyerbeer, may also be considered grand opera...