Talk:Chamber opera

Invented by Britten?

This is a stretch! The term might have been (this needs citation anyway!), but the form certainly has existed for a long time, maybe even since Greek times and certainly in the Baroque period (it seems dismissive to say "The term chamber opera is also sometimes used to describe smaller Baroque operatic works..."). Chamber opera is simply a portmanteau of chamber ensemble, meaning a small ensemble (or at least one smaller than an orchestra, or an ensemble created for a specific purpose), and opera. I'm sure it existed before Britten. Rarely do composers ever "invent" a form of dramatic art. It's like saying that one composer invented ballet. Ballet is simply dance put to music--from the ancients to modern day. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.65.36.225 (talk) 02:28, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Yeah man, Holst wrote Savitri quite a bit before Britten did one, so even in "modern times" Britten wasn't ground-breaking in this respect, although he certainly pioneered the genre. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.173.109.217 (talk) 14:55, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

Does Josef Berg really deserve to be mentioned in this article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.173.109.217 (talk) 14:57, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

Or Matthew King? Barber and Holst are not mentioned - I wonder if Mr. King added his name to the list? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.162.226.212 (talk) 11:25, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Unless the violin and viola are one player ala Pierrot (or some other such thing), it's likely that 7 plus 8 equals 15, not 14 (thus the edit) :-) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.251.198.150 (talk) 13:42, 11 August 2016 (UTC)

Please define "single strings"

Nonspecialists, such as myself, are not sure what "single strings" means. Somebody please clarify. Pete unseth (talk) 15:43, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

I think it means that there is one player for every instrument in the string section. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 00:45, 12 January 2021 (UTC)