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Recently, I went to Paramount Theatre in Asbury Park, NJ to attend The Metro Lyric Opera “Barber of Seville”. It was my first experience attending a live opera. It was very interesting and was much more than I had expected. I had heard about opera before and also watched it on television once or twice, but watching the live performance of the artists was more interesting and enjoyable. One thing that helped me enjoy the opera was the knowledge I gained about opera by reading my text book and the lessons given by the instructor in class. Opera has an interesting background history, with being found almost a century and a half before the classical period (Age of Enlightment). Many composers have written opera and down the line changes have occurred and edits made by the composers to the main idea of opera, for example presenting of music along the drama. In the beginning opera use to be more of a drama than anything else but then along the line text music and dance was added to make it more appealing to the eyes and ears of the audience. In the most cases opera are performed in foreign languages rather than English, which is sometimes an obstacle of attracting adequate amount of a crowd. People think that as it is in a fo