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Abstract: this article presents the ways of assimilation of the gender “opera” by the german culture in the middle
of the seventeenth century and how the local culture influenced contemporary standards, to say: the Florentine, the
Venetian and the French operatic styles. Besides, it tries to show the diffusion of opera in the German territories and
more specifically, to emphasize the importance of the opening of the Theater am Gänsemarkt (Goose Market Theater) in
Hamburg, 1678, as a culmination of this process.
Keywords: baroque opera, German baroque opera, Theater am Gänsemarkt (Goose Market Theatre).
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