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Operatic pop is a subgenre of pop music that is performed in an operatic style, or a song, theme or motif from classical music stylized as pop. The term popera and adjectives poperatic and popical (for "pop classical") are used by some media editors and music reviewers. The actual word 'popera' was a term used by sadler well opera back in later 1960`s as seen in lord mayor of London parade later coined by Scott Paul-Young a British theatre agent to best describe the music that was being created by producer Malcolm Middleton and performed by the opera girl band 'Milan' for the first time at The Hippodrome, Leicester Square, London on the 9th August, 2001. Malcolm Middleton created the idea of an opera band mixing traditional opera with contemporary pop and dance music earlier in 2000. This unique package of a 'pop' boy band or girl band singing in an opera style later inspired acts such as Il Divo and Amici Forever.

Operatic pop solo singers [edit]

Operatic pop groups [edit]

• All Angels
• Amici Forever
• Appassionante
• The Arrangement
• Blake
• Bond
• The Canadian Tenors
• Celtic Woman
• East Village Opera Company
• G4^[5]
• Jonathan & Charlotte
• Il Divo^[6]
• Les Prêtres
• Milan
• NARIA Group
• Only Men Aloud!
• Opera Babes
• The Priests
• RyanDan
• Tears Of Magdalena
• The Ten Tenors
• Trans Siberian Orchestra

See also [edit]

• Classical crossover music
• New Age music

References [edit]

External links [edit]

*http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0693577/ The Scales of Justice  the saint clips of lord mayors show has an float showing popera from Sadler Wells .

• What is Popera? by Oliver Kamm in Time Online 20 November 2004, accessed 27 June 2008
• Article on the definition of Classical Crossover
• Urban dictionary definitions, accessed 27 June 2008

popera was a term used by sadler well opera back in later 1960`s as seen in lord mayor of London parade