Musical or opera with little or no spoken dialogue
Asung-through orthrough-sung work is a narrative work such as astage musical,musical film oropera in which the entirelibretto is set to music, with little or no spoken dialogue or monologues used to tell the story. The story is told through a combination ofaria,arioso andrecitative. Early versions of this include the Italian genre ofopera buffa, a light-hearted form of opera that gained prominence in the 1750s.[1][2] SinceJesus Christ Superstar, sung-through musicals have been increasingly popular, with one commentator writing, "Hamilton demonstrates ... that a sung-through musical can be as vigorous in its storytelling as any more traditional book musical."[3][4]
Chess[20][21] Some productions have been completely sung-through, while some have had scattered lines, and some (notably the original Broadway production) were staged as book musicals.[22]
^Richard Taruskin, (2009 ). Music in the Nineteenth Century: The Oxford History of Western Music. Oxford University Press
^Lotte Eilskov Jensen, Joseph Theodoor Leerssen, Marita Mathijsen (eds). 2010. Free Access to the Past: Romanticism, Cultural Heritage and the Nation. Brill. p. 236.
