The Magic Flute is a fairy tale of darkness, light, and finding your way in the world. It takes the form of a Singspiel, which means it includes singing AND spoken dialogue (a bit like a musical). The story opens in the middle of the action.

In addition to operetta and musical comedy, types of comic opera include Italian opera buffa (which has sung dialogue), German Singspiel, English ballad opera, and Spanish tonadilla and zarzuela. The French opéra-comique originated as comic opera but later dealt with serious subject matter.

• Bel Canto. This Italian phrase means “beautiful singing”.
• Opera Buffa. Comic opera, always sung in Italian.
• Opera Seria. Serious opera.
• Grand Opera. Spectacular opera.
• Music Drama. A style of opera that is created by a single artist who writes both the text and the music to advance the drama.

18th century

A Singspiel (German pronunciation: [ziŋɡʃpiːl]; plural: Singspiele; literally “sing-play”) is a form of German-language music drama, now regarded as a genre of opera. It is characterized by spoken dialogue, which is alternated with ensembles, songs, ballads, and arias which were often strophic, or folk-like.

Singspiel is a musical genre that appeared in 18th century Germany. Like opéra comique, Singspiel is a concentrate of what life is made of: lightness, fantasy, emotion as well as gravity and tragedy. But it’s to be distinguished from opera buffa or operetta owing to its political connotation.

1 : denoting a number of persons or things considered as one group or whole flock is a collective word. 2a : formed by collecting : aggregated. b of a fruit : multiple. 3a : of, relating to, or being a group of individuals.

a/an, the. The determiners a/an and the are called “articles”. They are the most common of all determiners.

In this page you can discover 72 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for together, like: in unison, unitedly, as one, in one breath, collectively, with-one-voice, accompanied, unison, go, all-together and commonly.

of, as, or characteristic of a group; of or by all or many of the individuals in a group acting together. the collective effort of the students. 3. designating or of any enterprise in which people work together as a group, esp. under a system of collectivism.

Collective identity refers to a person’s sense of belonging to a group. The identity of the group, or the ‘collective,’ becomes a part of the person’s individual identity. The idea here is that by participating in social activities, a person can develop a sense of belonging and an identity that goes beyond the person.

: a farm especially in a Communist country formed from many small holdings collected into a single unit for joint operation under governmental supervision.

Here are some examples of common collective nouns used for things:

• A bouquet of flowers.
• A bunch of flowers.
• A fleet of ships.
• A forest of trees.
• A galaxy of stars.
• A pack of cards.
• A pack of lies.
• A pair of shoes.